Christopher Hitchens reports on Iraq
In this interview with John Gibson of Fox News, Hitchens discusses his recent trip to Iraq. In general, he belives that things are going well:
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
And so if no one is willing to take the gamble, as they see it, of saying actually that it's going a lot better than it is, but it is. It's quite extraordinary to see the way that American soldiers are welcomed. To see the work that they're doing and not just rolling up these filthy networks of Baathists and Jihaddists, but building schools, opening soccer stadiums, helping people connect to the Internet, there is a really intelligent political program as well as a very tough military one...
I felt a sense of annoyance that I had to go there myself to find any of that out.
More balanced mainstream reporting on Iraq and on the democracy movement in Iran would be welcome.
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The only political reporting
The only political reporting I trust is from the Daily Show on Comedy Central. Oddly, the fact that they make it all up hurts them not at all in the credibility department.