A US Marine Lance Corporal Checks In

[David Hartung]

"starwars" <nob...@tatooine.homelinux.net> wrote in message
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> http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003883
>
> BY JOHN R. GUARDIANO
> Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:01 a.m. EDT
>
> AL HILLAH, Iraq--There's more to America than New York,
> Washington and Los Angeles. The same is true for Iraq; there's a
> vast country outside Baghdad and the "Sunni triangle" that's now
> the center of a guerrilla campaign. It's understandable that
> Western press reports are fixated on attacks that kill American
> soldiers. But that focus is obscuring what's actually happening
> in the rest of the country--and it misleads the public into
> thinking that Iraqis are growing angry and impatient with their
> liberators.
>
> In fact, there is another Iraq that the media virtually ignore.
> It is guarded by the First Marine Division, and, unlike Baghdad,
> it has been a model of success. The streets are safe, petty and
> violent crime are low, water and electrical services are almost
> universally available (albeit rationed), and ordinary Iraqis are
> beginning to clean up and rebuild their neighborhoods and
> communities. Equally important, a deep level of mutual trust and
> respect has developed between the Marines and the populace here
> in central and southern Iraq.

This seemsto be a common thread, it seems that perhaps the major media is
not telling us the complete story.

[William David Thweatt]

David Hartung (dhar...@quixnet.net) wrote:

: "starwars" <nob...@tatooine.homelinux.net> wrote in message

With the major media folk, it all goes back to Thomas Kuhn. They actually
believe Kuhn's idiocy about reality being flexible and subject to
theories. If they can get enough people to believe in the reality
(paradigm), then the reality will follow the belief. It's weird but true.

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William "Dave" Thweatt
Robert E. Welsh Postdoctoral Fellow
Chemistry Department
Rice University
Houston, TX
thw...@ruf.rice.edu
dave.t...@us.army.mil