Deborah Amos reports today from Mosul. The anchor's introduction:
The violence in Baghdad contrasts sharply with the situation in the northern province of Nineveh. There, it's a different picture. Many Iraqis who live in the provincial capital of Mosul say life has improved over the last six months. They're working alongside the American military in charge of rebuilding their region.Amos interviews an Iraqi who says that Mosul is relatively quiet because of the 101st Airborne Division in charge of the city's security and reconstruction.
The 101st are doing a good job, they're doing a lot of reconstruction, developments, also. People don't want any more troubles or problems for their life. All they want is to live peacefully and to support their families and to have an income.The 101st Airborne has done more to help more Iraqi families live peacefully than have all of the world's self-described "peace" activists put together. Go figure. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 09, 2003 05:30 PM
What the learned NPR announcers exclude from their story is that in Baghdad, people don't want any more troubles or problems for their life, either. All they want is to live peacefully and to support their families and to have an income.
But in Baghdad live the print and TV journalists, whose slavish devotion to covering every hit-and-run attack in the most dramatic way possible makes them the official and willing Press agency for Terror, Inc. How dumb must a terrorist be to miss the point that an atrocity committed a days's journey out of town won't make the evening news?
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on October 9, 2003 09:22 PMKeep an eye on this General. He's doing a great job over there.
Posted by: Parabellum on October 10, 2003 07:45 AMAnd never forget, even when or if they complain like crazy, that freedom to make the complaint is a vast improvement in their quality of life!
Posted by: bleeding heart conservative on October 11, 2003 01:16 PM