I think we're at our "Walter Cronkite says we can't win" moment with the press and Iraq. I watched the news shows on Sunday, and it was pretty clear that most of them, especially the roundtable on "Meet the Press," have already accepted that the war is a lost cause. The mainstream media have never been particulary interested in why we might be there and certainly not in reporting any news that might make the case for war. But what if they're wrong? I don't agree with everything Wilson says, but it would help if we at least got both sides of the story:
We have created a balance of power in the Middle East in which no regime can easily threaten any other. In doing this, we and our allies have followed a long tradition: We worked to prevent Imperial Germany from dominating Europe in 1914, Hitler from doing the same in 1940, and the Soviet Union from doing this in 1945. Now we are doing it in the Middle East.
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I've gotta disagree with this: "The mainstream media have never been particulary interested in why we might be there" -- In the run up to war, the mainstream media reported very little about why we shouldn't go to Iraq and pretty much unquestioningly passed along the White House talking points about why we should go into Iraq. WMD this, mushroom cloud that. Pretty much a steady drumbeat from the MSM from September 2002 when the Bush administration rolled out their new product (as chief of staff Andrew Card said, you don't roll out a new product until after Labor Day) until at least Bush's "Mission Accomplished" landing on the aircraft carrier just off the coast of San Diego.
"and it was pretty clear that most of them, especially the roundtable on "Meet the Press," have already accepted that the war is a lost cause", ... check public opinion, I think most people in the country think the same.