Umm...Guys?

Or, Didn't You Know There Was a War On?




There's something distinctly odd about the dead silence on Iraq news coming from most of the right-wing blogs. The news does not appear to be good, but only Sully and the lefties, like Skeptical, are saying anything about it. That's not good.


Now on the one hand, it's useful to wait for the fog of battle to lift before making pronouncements. Iraq's been declared a quagmire before, and what appears to be going on may or may not resemble what's actually going on. But nevertheless, not talking about it, not even mentioning the difficulty, makes it that much easier to call we righties unserious about the war, which is a meme we really don't wanna see.


So, great as the CBS meltdown is, let's take a moment amidst slapping each other on the back and take notice of the other problems. If we don't, the public is gonna end up hearing naught but disaster commentary.


Sully links the David Brooks piece defending the administration's "gradualism." Read. Discusss.




UPDATE Iraq the Model thinks that the situation isn't as dire as it appears, that the insurgency isn't as popular in Fallujah as many think. He also thinks that most Iraqis will accept the collateral of cleaning the insurgents out, and that it has to be done, by the forces of the government and/or the coalition, sooner or later. I agree.