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June 10, 2006
Focusing in on the Important Issues
When a key person in an enterprise passes from the scene — whether by moving on to other career paths, natural death, or being immolated by 1000 pounds of high explosive encased in steel moving at hundreds of miles per hour — the ripples and waves of that absence have long-term effects that are difficult to predict with any precision. Their absence, like their earlier presence, warps space around them, and in the case where the now-dead (for which I am grateful) is an enemy of one's country, the implications can be staggering. These implications require huge resources and much consideration to unravel and understand, so that we can maintain our focus on the desired end state of the war, and act with due consideration of how to achieve those aims in the changed circumstances.
Fortunately, the Western media brings such resources into the reach of the public. We are not constrained to listening to our leaders tell us the outcome of their reasoning process; we can reason for ourselves. Unfortunately, the media would often rather focus on the frame than the issues. In this case, I mean that literally: the WaPo's concern about Zarqawi's death is the literal frame in which his picture was displayed at the CENTCOM briefing. No, really!
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I'm just glad the s.o.b. is dead. He was an evil piece of garbage. The insurgency won't slow down, but it was still a good victory for the U.S.
Posted by: PoliticalCritic at June 10, 2006 12:39 PM
The WaPo is a known enemy of this nation - they are a member of the TSM (Terrorist Supporting Media - the old 'MSM'). To pay any attention to them is to literally waste time and energy on their propaganda. Hopefully, their name will appear on the future list of TSM (old MSM) bankruptcies. Quite frankly, they need to be sacked and burned to the ground, IMHO.
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at June 15, 2006 9:51 AM