April 6, 2003
PEACE?:
Watch Out for Hijackers (THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, April 6, 2003, NY Times)The State Department has been upset about how the Arab media have been portraying the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Personally, I don't see what the problem is. As far as I can tell from watching the Arab satellite networks there's only a one-word, actually just a one-letter, difference in how they report the war and how U.S. networks report it. CNN calls it "America's war in Iraq," and Arab television calls it "America's war on Iraq."What a difference a letter makes. As I have traveled around the Arab world watching this war, I've been thinking a lot about that one letter. It contains an important message for President Bush: Beware of hijackers.
Saddam Hussein's regime will soon be finished, and the moment for building the peace will be upon us. As soon as it arrives, there will be people who will try to hijack this peace and turn it to their own ends. Mr. Bush must be ready to fend off these hijackers...
Peace? The Left still doesn't get the import of stories like the one below. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 6, 2003 12:55 AM
Some years ago, I reviewed a revisionist
history that blamed the United States for not
maintaining peace in the Pacific in 1941. My
summary comment was that defining conditions
that existed on Dec. 6, 1941, as "peace" was
odd.
The war started 1,300 years ago.
Not only does Al Jazeera lie through its collective teeth; according to Tom Friedman, they can't even spell.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at April 6, 2003 4:59 PM