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Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Just one soldier a day is all we ask
Speaking of talking tough (see below) the Pope of Provincetown says:
The inevitable outbreaks of violence and dissension in Iraq are obviously worth covering and important news. But there's an under-current of complete gloom in news reports that seems to me to be more fueled by ideological fervor than sober analysis. Given the magnitude and complexity of the task of rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq, it seems to me we're making slow but decent progress. The lack of a complete social implosion or exploding civil war is itself a huge achievement. And no one said the post-war reconstruction was going to be easy. So what's behind this drumbeat of apocalypse? I think it's a good rule among boomer journalists that every story they ever edit or write or film about warfare will at some point be squeezed into a Vietnam prism. The modern military has denied these people the chance to be vindicated during actual combat; so they will try and present the occupation in exactly the same light. Yes, there is probably considerable discontent in Iraq right now; yes, every death is awful; but no, this isn't even close to being combat; let alone Vietnam. Of course, I won't be completely certain about this until Johnny Apple writes a front-page NYT news analysis piece laying out the new consensus. Tick, tock. Or is he too busy touring Devon?
With a soldier a day dying in Iraq, one has to wonder where Sully's tipping point rests? Three soldiers a day? Five? It's so easy to sit on the curb and wave your little flag and pretend that things are getting better and darn those journalists who are acting all gloomy and harshing your mellow.
Wave the flag and grin your rictus grin.
Ooooo! Look!....fireworks!
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