Give 'em hooey Harry campaigns for defeat

Austin Bay:

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That has been the major failing of the media in covering the Iraq war. Rather than condemn the enemy's war crimes they blame the US and Iraqi forces for not stopping it. This is an extraordinarily unfair telling of the story.

On the domestic front you can see a similar double standard. Steve Kornacki in writing about Harry Reed says:

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... Republicans have been straining to caricature their foes as surrender-happy coddlers of “the enemy.” Mr. Reid, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, seemed to be playing right into their hands.

But there is reason to believe that his provocative—if arguably clumsy—rhetoric is the product of a correct calculation that the public is warming to the more aggressive Democratic posture on the war.

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Of course the Democrats' "more aggressive" posture on the war is not against the enemy but against the administrations' attempt to win the war. You see the Democrats have embraced defeat so completely that a win now would be a political disaster for them and the see political gain in defeat. It si hard to imagine a more craven political posture or a more unpatriotic politicians.