A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.
Morton Kondracke writing at Jewish World Review writes In war of 21st century, civilized world is losing to jihadists “Twenty years ago, during the Reagan administration, I encountered a young producer at National Public Radio who said she and her husband had decided not to have children because they were convinced they'd die in a nuclear war. Immediately, I told her, "Please, have children. There's not going to be a nuclear war." I have no idea what she did. Today, I might give the same advice, but not so swiftly. Children born into the 21st century face a far more perilous future than those in the 20th century — partly because adults now seem to lack the courage and wisdom to protect them.” (read more)
Jack Kelly writing at Jewish World Review writes When Western media act as terrorist propagandists “Reuters announced Sunday it was suspending its relationship with Adnan Hajj, a freelance photographer in Lebanon who had worked for the British news service since 1993, because he doctored a photograph on the aftermath of an Israeli air strike in south Beirut. Mr. Hajj cloned the image of a plume of smoke rising from a bombed building, which made it appear the damage was more widespread than in fact it was. The doctoring was discovered by Web logger Charles Johnson (Little Green Footballs), the man who proved the memo then CBS anchor Dan Rather was relying on for his expose of President Bush's National Guard service had been typed on Microsoft Word, which did not exist at the time of the date on the memo.” (read more)
Ian of Hot Air posts Video: Colmes Sticks Up For Reuters’ Decision Not To Explain Hajj’s Archives “So-called FOX News liberal Alan Colmes feverishly defended Reuters’ decision not to explain some 920 photographs Adnan Hajj took while working for the wire service. In fact, he not only takes up for Reuters, but serves as an apologist for Hajj. The following exchange took place between Colmes and Media Research Center’s Tim Graham on tonight’s edition of Hannity & Colmes:” (read more)
Mohammed at Iraq the Model writes The battle for Baghdad; the view from my alley. “The neighborhood where I live in Baghdad isn't exactly a safe one, actually the sector where it lies was classified by the authorities a few months ago as one of the hot red zones of Baghdad as it's been the place where a lot of violence occurred in the past few months. When I try to play back the tape of incidents I recall at least one suicide bombing, several assassinations and kidnappings and many many attacks with mortars and roadside bombs and a few raids by the MNF or Iraqi army. Overall almost no week passes without a few incidents in this more or less one square kilometer area.” (read more)
Andi of Andi’s World writes What's Wrong With the Mainstream Media? “Given today's revelation about photo-staging at Reuters, it's clear that the MSM is not in the business of delivering news. No, they are in the business of shaping public opinion, bending it around their own left-wing ideology. Of course, this has been evident to a large segment of the population for quite some time now, it's just that this latest stunt is such a public event that it cannot simply be brushed aside and made into anything other than what it was - a blatant attempt by a news agency to peddle fiction, and distort fact. The end justifies the means. Today, I read a concise and eloquent synopsis of what's wrong with the mainstream media.” (read more)
Dan Riehl writes Qana Exposed “If you read this post, view the images and watch the short slow motion video, I believe you will come to clearly understand how Hizbollah manipulated the scene at Qana. Also, quite possibly, you'll see how they succeeded in adding to the body count of dead children there. How do you introduce new bodies into the scene of a bomb strike? The answer may be as simple as you bring them from around the corner. Where they ultimately came from, who can say? I call the first image top right clean crew. And it looks like a motley, yet meticulously clean crew at that. Doesn't it? The block around the one man's face is a reflection on the movie camera lens.” (read more)
Glen of the Babylon Blog writes The IA “Any of you who have been following the war will know that the quickest way America can declare some sort of victory and go home is for Iraq to establish a viable army. This in fact is the number one mission of coalition forces and involves the creation and training of new Iraqi Army units. Unfortunately this is easier said than done.Here in Haditha, India Company is responsible for training their Iraqi infantry counterpart that shares the base with us.” (read more)
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