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 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject: Chrenkoff: "The Case for Boredom" |
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Via James Taranto's "Opinion Journal", Chrenkoff continues to provide an oasis in the desert of MSM "journalism"...a bookmark candidate fersure...
| Quote: | The Case for Boredom
A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq.
BY ARTHUR CHRENKOFF
Monday, January 17, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST
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It has been a mission of this fortnightly column, now in its 19th edition, to bring to readers' attention all that "gets overlooked if not ignored" in Iraq: the advancements of the political and civil society; the rebirth of freedom, economic growth and reconstruction progress; the generosity of foreigners and the positive role coalition troops play in rebuilding the country; and the usually unremarked-upon security successes.
Contrary to some critics, the intention has never been to whitewash the situation in Iraq or to downplay the negative. The violence, bloodshed, disappointments and frustrations are all there for everyone to see and read about in the "mainstream" media on a daily basis. Pointing out positive developments is not to deny the bad news, merely to provide a more complete picture. As voters faced with the defining foreign policy issue of the new millennium, we owe it to ourselves to be fully informed about the state of affairs in Iraq--and that means rebuilt hospitals as well as car bombs.
What follows is not the full picture of Iraq--merely that part of it you don't often see on the nightly news or the pages of newspapers.
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Only time will tell where the future of Iraq lies--more violence and decline, or more of the overlooked and ignored stories that Cpl. Pacheco writes about. If the media have the tendency to report mostly the bad news, we can only wish the people of Iraq a future in which their country rarely graces the pages of our newspapers. The election coming up in less than two weeks is hopefully the first tentative step on the road to that boring future. But the Iraqis who survived numerous wars and decades of oppression would agree: boring is not bad.
Mr. Chrenkoff is an Australian blogger. He writes at Chrenkoff.
WSJ Opinion Journal - cont'd |
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