We’re Winning - Where’s the Press?
The Fighting 6th blog has a post up about the current state of affairs in al Anbar - their area of operations.
Two things popped out at me - the situation is going very well for the coalition forces there and they know it’s not just their hard work and sacrifice; and the main stream media is already bored with them and won’t report on the success story.
Blackfive & Iraq in a nutshell -
I could go on for pages. I think if you talk to the vast majority of Marines out here you’ll see that the optimism we’re pushing out is legitimate. One anecdotal bit is that we have to really campaign to get mainstream media outlets to our AO. Why is that? Because it’s freaking calm out here. Mike Yon came out here for almost a month and didn’t have anything to write about. He filed a couple of very minor dispatches but he writes about open warfare — it’s what “sells the papers” for him. We still have a little bit of “bang bang shoot ‘em up” but the recurring story out here is that the Anbar people have thrown up their hands and seen that we are the good guys. (emphasis added)
The bottom line is that we are freaking winning out here. And the really astonishing thing is that Coalition Forces aren’t the main effort — we’re simply an enabling factor. The Iraqi people, the moms and dads of Iraq, are the ones who are winning this war.
Source: Blackfive & Iraq in a nutshell -
