Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Baghdad Security Plan

I have been a bit frustrated by news reports on suicide bombs in Baghdad recently and Mohammad at Iraq the Model expressed my views on this exactly.

If we look at how the media handles the situation we'll find something like this almost everywhere;

Dozens killed, scores wounded in attacks suggest failure of security measures…

It's as if the speaker here wants to only emphasize the defect in security measures in a way that honestly angers and disgusts me.
When shall they realize, if ever, that we are dealing with brutal crimes against humanity, a genocide against the people of Iraq? Why don't people talk about the cruelty of the crimes and expose the obvious goals of the terrorists behind the crimes?

Yes, why doesn't the media? I wish I could believe that they are reporting on the defects so that security can be improved but instead it seems that they are just trying to sell the idea that providing security is impossible so we might as well just give up. Don't we know that Iraq is about to erupt into full-blown Civil War at any moment? You would think reporters would be embarrassed of writing articles entitled, "Is Iraq on the brink of Civil War?" every few months? They have only been prematurely predicting it for the last few years.

Mohammad asks tough questions in another section of his post.

Where are the media when terrorists use chlorine poisonous gas, acids, and ball bearings to kill and hurt more and more civilians in utter disregard to all written and unwritten laws, ethics and values?
I understand it's the duty of the media to practice scrutiny over the work of governments but isn't it equally their duty to expose criminals and their evil deeds?

It's frustrating to see the media turn a blind eye to the nature of the crimes and open fire on an honest endeavor to restore peace to a bleeding nation. I'm sure the terrorists are pleased by the coverage. Why not, when their crimes are being portrayed as successful breakthroughs against the efforts of Iraq and America it's likely motivating them to keep up the killing.

I bolded what I think are Mohammad's most important points. I know reporters are normally cynics but why do they seem to give the terrorists the benefit of the doubt while harshly criticizing any attempt to improve the situation in Iraq.

Every exploded bomb inflicted on Iraqi citizens is reported as a great victory for the terrorists while every raided car bomb factory is ignored or treated as an expose on how the informant was probably tortured like in the recent New York Times article entitled, 3 Suspects Talk After Iraqi Soldiers Do Dirty Work.

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