Thoughts about Haditha

In my firm opinion, the Main Stream Legacy Media wants nothing less than our defeat in Iraq, and will go to any length to achieve that goal.

I have been a voracious consumer of news from Iraq since my brother first went there in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The news from The Big three (ABC/CBS/NBC) was almost always slanted to point out where The United States was wrong, or had failed, or would fail in whatever it was trying to achieve. Even the addition of CNN, CNBC, FOX, MSNBC, and so on haven't really changed the equation except to increase the number of people playing, "Gotcha".

What does all that have to do with Haditha? The 24-hour news cycle. The jackals will converge and do their thing.

Others have looked down the road, and say we've been down this road before. Have we? Will we repeat past mistakes?

Global Guerrillas has a disquieting take, with a helpful link, from which I will post part:

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In other words, he who fights against the weak - and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed - and loses, loses. He who fights against the weak and wins also loses. To kill an opponent who is much weaker than yourself is unnecessary and therefore cruel; to let that opponent kill you is unnecessary and therefore foolish. As Vietnam and countless other cases prove, no armed force, however rich, however powerful, however advanced, however well motivated is immune to this dilemma. The end result is always disintegration and defeat...That is why the present adventure will almost certainly end as the previous one (Vietnam) did. Namely, with the last U.S. troops fleeing the country while hanging on to their helicopters' skids.

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Here is the Wikipedia article about Martin van Creveld, who wrote the words I quoted. It seems he is a thinker, but is he right? Have we taken on a tar baby fashioned by Br'er Fox?

I believe we are fighting the right war, in the right place, at the right time. We are fighting the Fourth World War. The enemy has Allies and Sympathizers from our own population, and we are not treating them as such. Sometimes I wonder if our own government has been infiltrated.

This Haditha thing will get very ugly if our "friends" in the press have anything to say about it.

I say we hit them back. Anybody game?