Fallujah in Ruins?
"Fallujah In Ruins" -- that was the headline in the LA Times a few days back, I am reminded by Gay Patriot. That is the view MSM wants to impose on us, but the evidence left in Fallujah's fall makes it hard to maintain that storyline.
From the staunchly anti-Bush London Times:
Amid the rubble of the main shopping street, one decree bearing the insurgents' insignia - two Kalashnikovs propped together - and dated November 1 gives vendors three days to remove nine market stalls from outside the city's library or face execution. The pretext given is that the rebels wanted to convert the building into a headquarters for the "Mujahidin Advisory Council" through which they ran the city.
Another poster in the ruins of the souk bears testament to the strict brand of Sunni Islam imposed by the council, fronted by hardline cleric Abdullah Junabi. The decree warns all women that they must cover up from head to toe outdoors, or face execution by the armed militants who controlled the streets.
Two female bodies found yesterday suggest such threats were far from idle. An Arab woman, in a violet nightdress, lay in a post-mortem embrace with a male corpse in the middle of the street. Both bodies had died from bullets to the head.
How long will anti-interventionist media, blinded by their lack of ability to judge good from evil, be able to ignore the fact that we are fighting to free a good country from incredibly evil people?
And from TechCentral, an analysis that MSM also largely misses, due to its desire to present the "insurgents" as a unified opposition to US "occupation:"
Islamic media around the world began to produce curious items: Moqtada ul-Sadr issued an order for the execution of any Wahhabis caught infiltrating the Shia holy cities; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in turn, supervised the beheading of an Iraqi Shia accused of spying for the Americans. Top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali Sistani issued a fatwa saying that anybody who obstructed the U.S.-sponsored elections in Iraq is destined for eternal fire. And the 26 leading Wahhabi radicals in Saudi Arabia published an open letter to the Iraqis calling for stiffened resistance in Fallujah and forbidding any cooperation with the U.S. forces. Little of this was reported in or digested by American media ...
If I were editor of the LA or NY Times (shudder!), I would have at least one reporter assigned full-time to watching and reading Arab media. Oh, but then I'd have to report what they found. Scratch that.
The TechCentral item underscores why so many Iraqis support our intervention. Saddam, through bruttal, murderous rule, was keeping this roiling pot barely under control, like Tito in Yugoslavia before him. Such situations cannot last forever, and the Iraqis' best hope is exactly what's happening: That the world's greatest light of freedom, its greatest military power, lead the way to a new democratic nation where shopkeepers don't have to fear death if they don't move their stalls, and women have rights not to be shot because they don't cover up, and a nation can exist and thrive despite different beliefs among its population.
From the staunchly anti-Bush London Times:
Amid the rubble of the main shopping street, one decree bearing the insurgents' insignia - two Kalashnikovs propped together - and dated November 1 gives vendors three days to remove nine market stalls from outside the city's library or face execution. The pretext given is that the rebels wanted to convert the building into a headquarters for the "Mujahidin Advisory Council" through which they ran the city.
Another poster in the ruins of the souk bears testament to the strict brand of Sunni Islam imposed by the council, fronted by hardline cleric Abdullah Junabi. The decree warns all women that they must cover up from head to toe outdoors, or face execution by the armed militants who controlled the streets.
Two female bodies found yesterday suggest such threats were far from idle. An Arab woman, in a violet nightdress, lay in a post-mortem embrace with a male corpse in the middle of the street. Both bodies had died from bullets to the head.
How long will anti-interventionist media, blinded by their lack of ability to judge good from evil, be able to ignore the fact that we are fighting to free a good country from incredibly evil people?
And from TechCentral, an analysis that MSM also largely misses, due to its desire to present the "insurgents" as a unified opposition to US "occupation:"
Islamic media around the world began to produce curious items: Moqtada ul-Sadr issued an order for the execution of any Wahhabis caught infiltrating the Shia holy cities; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in turn, supervised the beheading of an Iraqi Shia accused of spying for the Americans. Top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali Sistani issued a fatwa saying that anybody who obstructed the U.S.-sponsored elections in Iraq is destined for eternal fire. And the 26 leading Wahhabi radicals in Saudi Arabia published an open letter to the Iraqis calling for stiffened resistance in Fallujah and forbidding any cooperation with the U.S. forces. Little of this was reported in or digested by American media ...
If I were editor of the LA or NY Times (shudder!), I would have at least one reporter assigned full-time to watching and reading Arab media. Oh, but then I'd have to report what they found. Scratch that.
The TechCentral item underscores why so many Iraqis support our intervention. Saddam, through bruttal, murderous rule, was keeping this roiling pot barely under control, like Tito in Yugoslavia before him. Such situations cannot last forever, and the Iraqis' best hope is exactly what's happening: That the world's greatest light of freedom, its greatest military power, lead the way to a new democratic nation where shopkeepers don't have to fear death if they don't move their stalls, and women have rights not to be shot because they don't cover up, and a nation can exist and thrive despite different beliefs among its population.
posted by Laer at 1:11 PM
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