As the blogosphere celebrates (in a disgusted sort of way, I admit, rather than from joy) exposing yet another MSM distortion of the war with the "police captain Jamil Hussein" affair, I have to ask why we bother with pursuing these tactical victories?
They are few and far in between. And these victories don't deter the vast majority of the press who view such exposures as isolated events that hardly prove their views of the war as wrong and going badly for us as incorrect. Everybody in the press knows those views are correct. (Tip to Instapundit)
The press just presses on to the next horror story or American casualty report.
We need to win the press war and not focus on winning isolated battles.
How many more such tactical victories will it take to lose the war?
About Me
- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
