What I Just Said, But Better

After typing up my last post, I went to Michael Yon's site (which all of y'all need to keep RSS'ed. I could go on for hours, but succinctly put: Yon is our generation's best war reporter, and should be taught in journalism classes everywhere), and saw his latest dispatch. He writes, better than I, about the transition from Iraq to the Af-Pak conflict.

Must read.

Take-away blurbs:

Many people around the world see America in decline. As someone who travels a great deal, I see the opposite. America is just getting started. Yes, we face enormous challenges and dangerous enemies. But the soul of our country, the initiative of our people, and the depth of the collective intelligence are all far stronger than our critics, and even many Americans, imagine. Al Qaeda thought that America would fall to her knees after 9/11. They were wrong. Today we hunt them like jackals.

Now that media attention is turning back to the Af-Pak war, let's hope that the sum of their reporting will be more informed and less biased than what came out of Iraq. If the Iraq model is followed again, the Western politicians will say whatever is expedient, bending to popular pressure created by the media, many of whom understand the bending of truth better than Einstein understood the bending of light.

Please read him regularly, and support him (he's an independent journalist) if you can.