Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Scoring the Progress in Afghanistan and Iraq

Almost every day we hear news of the 'progress' of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Like today, the news spoke of 10 French military killed and attacks on the US troops. Countless times I have heard that 3 US were killed today or 5 were wounded, etc. Has anyone ever noticed they don't say how many enemy were killed or what the real outcome was?

It is like reading football scores (and standings) on Monday morning:

Dallas 3 New York
Green Bay 14 Detroit
New England 31 Buffalo

You only get half-truths and those 'truths' are meant to mislead.

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