{"id":1513,"date":"2008-04-16T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2008-04-16T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T21:23:31","slug":"new-york-times-narrow-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"New York Times’ narrow view"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This morning, the New York Times<\/a>‘ headline screamed that Iraqis were abandoning their posts in Sadr City. The truth is that only a few dozen green troops got cold feet;<\/p>\n

A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line against Shiite militias.<\/p>\n

The retreat left a crucial stretch of road on the front lines undefended for hours and led to a tense series of exchanges between American soldiers and about 50 Iraqi troops who were fleeing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You have to read down a few paragraphs to discover that another Iraqi unit took it’s place immediately. Then, after complaining that the Iraqis are all cowards, the NYT complains that they’re too agressive;<\/p>\n

One big problem is that the Iraqi troops have responded to militia gunfire with such intense fusillades that the soldiers have endangered civilians, American soldiers and even their own forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So which is it? Of course, the whole point of the New York Times article is that it’s a useless fight for Americans. That the Iraqis are the Keystone Kops of our war against terror. That judging by these incidences, we should just turn tail and run like a few dozen green Iraqi troops. Where are the New York Times stories about the other thousands of Iraqis who are standing their ground and doing the heavy lifting?<\/p>\n

Someone send the NYT a copy of Michael Yon’s new book “Moment of Truth in Iraq<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, the New York Times‘ headline screamed that Iraqis were abandoning their posts in Sadr … New York Times’ narrow view<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}