Friday, August 26, 2005
Great Reading About Iraq
Yesterday featured some great reading about the war in Iraq.
Everybody's talking about it - Michael Yon's account of recent action in Iraq. This is how "war" coverage ought to be done.
Then there is Powerline's perspective on casualties.
Everybody's talking about it - Michael Yon's account of recent action in Iraq. This is how "war" coverage ought to be done.
Then there is Powerline's perspective on casualties.
Even in peacetime. The media's breathless tabulation of casualties in Iraq--now, over 1,800 deaths--is generally devoid of context. Here's some context: between 1983 and 1996, 18,006 American military personnel died accidentally in the service of their country. That death rate of 1,286 per year exceeds the rate of combat deaths in Iraq by a ratio of nearly two to one.These posts are among the best examples of how blogging is going to change things, really change things. You simply cannot find things like this from the legacy media.
