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25,000 abandon insurgency: U.S.
IRAQ | American military estimate highlights tribal strategy


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Stephen Eisel wrote:25,000 abandon insurgency: U.S.
IRAQ | American military estimate highlights tribal strategy


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It will be interesting to observe if this gets any coverage by the drive-by media. It could represent progress which is not in the playbook, nor a contingency plan for those who want to leave Iraq no matter what is happening or what our troops have accomplished. That's cool.

If this trend gets really big, it won't go away.... and maybe we can.

I think the Limbaugh-dubbed "Drive-by media" will respond better when death tolls start to decline for a significant period of time. I think you guys are only reading the headline, not the article. The article quotes US military bigwigs saying things like, "well, things are finally paying off" and "we are seeing the best results we have seen in years" which implies that no, the media hasn't been glossing over the "good" stories. There just haven't been that many.

Phil Florian wrote:I think the Limbaugh-dubbed "Drive-by media" will respond better when death tolls start to decline for a significant period of time. I think you guys are only reading the headline, not the article. The article quotes US military bigwigs saying things like, "well, things are finally paying off" and "we are seeing the best results we have seen in years" which implies that no, the media hasn't been glossing over the "good" stories. There just haven't been that many.

The building alliances is the part that caught my eye not to mention that they were Sunni (that is really big news). So it would appear that the new strategy is working. The media has not covered this war objectively. This is war not a trip through the drive thru at McDonalds. My friends that have returned from Iraq all say the same thing that the media is only showing or reporting the negatives things about the war. And the media does not cover the positive things that have happened in Iraq. Go figure!