The War the Media Won’t Show You

When  our soldiers retook a  village  from al Qaeda near Baqubah, Michael Yon was there  to  show us, in extremely graphic  images,  what the terrorists did to the  men, women, and  childen who once lived there, and even to their animals.  The Times and the Post were not  there and  won’t show you images like this.  They won’t show you the  al Qaeda that kills Iraqis in Iraq,  Britons in Britain, Spaniards in Spain, and Americans in America.

We seem not to have internalized the fact that this enemy does not negotiate, respects no borders, and will not coexist with us.  If we won’t fight them there, they will fight us somewhere else — only there will be more of them, with more money, with better training, and with  more horrific weapons to use against us.  It’s become a defensive axiom that dissent is patriotic.  I don’t know who ever said otherwise, but surrender to this certainly isn’t.

Related:   More Iraqis turning their guns on al Qaeda.