So Now “Civil War” Is The Benchmark?

J.J. Jackson* | March 21, 2006

NewsMax.com makes a pretty good point here.

The press is marking the third anniversary of the liberation of Iraq with an avalanche of reports that a sectarian “civil war” has broken out, which, reporters say, means U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are on the verge of failure.

But only a few short weeks ago reporters were measuring success [or, in their case, failure] in Iraq by a completely different standard: the number of U.S. troops killed in combat operations.

So why the shift in focus? It turns out that while the so-called Iraqi civil war has been raging, the number of U.S. casualties has plummeted to less than half of what they were over the previous five months.

But then again are we really surprised by this? After all, the left and their accomplices in the media have been doing nothing but moving the goal posts around since the beginning of the war. Now they seem to have moved to a completely new stadium!

And it’s not likely to change any time soon. After all, they cannot possibly ever admit that three successful elections where the citizens turned out in numbers greater than Americans do (for our elections) is any possible sign of progress or desire for the Iraqis to take control of their own country and future.

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