Robbing Petraeus of His Due

There was once a time that a man named Arthur Chrenkoff presented a series entitled Good News From Iraq. It was hard work back when Arthur was doing it as there wasn't all that much good news. Jump forward to present and imagine if he were still compiling the good news. It sure would be much easier.

The so-called surge has resulted in more good news than any war supporter ever dared to hope for; Osama bin-Laden has whined that Iraqi's should go easier on his army of hated jihadi's. The Iraqi people have said their peace and they've largely gotten what they've asked for--peace.

Perhaps Arthur can come back and start a new series also entitled Good News From Iraq. One suspects he'd have an equally difficult time as the media has been loathe to present the good news in any form. Instead of reporting it straight, they've either not reported anything or have tainted it with as news that seems bad now but a year ago would never have been reported among the other really horrible atrocities being reported.

In another time, General David Petraeus would be exulted as one of the best military men ever in this great nation and found his name beside Bradley, Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, Schwarkopf and the pantheon of other great American military leaders. Instead, the media, in their silence, has robbed the man of the fame due him for orchestrating what may well be one of the greatest reversals of momentum in American military history.

Deaths for both civilians and our troops are down dramatically and a realistic peace in the future is not a pipe dream anymore. No matter how you look at events unfolding in Iraq, the fact that we are winning is now indisputable (except on the lefty blogs but no one takes them serious except the nutroots anyway) and the good news is now a trend instead of an anomoly. It's too damn bad that Petraeus will get shorted for pulling off one of the greatest military operations in the last half century.