Hey Look, Everybody - It's a Crisis

As I read through this week's newspapers, it seems that most editorials and articles regard what is presently happening in Iraq as a "crisis" - and seemingly as one that arose as if by magic. Which can only make me wonder... do the reporters and news columnists bother to read their own newspaper's articles? Because this "crisis" has been building for a long time.

Oh, I know.... those on the right were arguing that every bad word about Iraq reflected "media bias" and insufficient coverage of "all the good things that are happening". The apologists for the war on the left were unwilling to admit that maybe they underestimated the difficulty of the occupation and transformation of Iraq. So we've spent a year with most voices trying to justify their political stance going into the war, as opposed to analyzing what is actually happening in Iraq.

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