Powerline had an interestng piece on casualties in the mid-east war, mentioning that the death rate is about half the 18-year peace-time average. Dying in harm's way is different that dying in peace time. However, it does point out that these men and women do dangerous work, even at home.
We also don't hear much about strategy, tactics and fights unless it is a big push somewhere newsworthy. Big pushes in Iraq are really smaller than in previous wars. Soldiers doing things in battle or just good things are not the stuff news broadcasts, even on cable seem to be made of. It is much duller, I suppose, than the umpteenth shot of smoke rising on the Baghdad horizon.
Perhaps we wouldn't be so negative about the war if the news actually gave us the whole picture. I know military doctors doing heart surgery in Afghanistan or the fact that a new sewer project is being completed in Baghdad is not news, but then neither are the canned shots of "insurgents" running around in ski masks holding RPG's.
We seem to be gettng a very selected news feed from Iraq.
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