Will Mainstream Media Journalists Fail on Afghanistan War the Way They Did on Iraq?
(Blog Post) The “’forgotten war’ in Afghanistan, as news outlets once called it, is suddenly very visible. NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel – who made his name covering the war in Iraq – put it well when he spoke to the New York Times from Kabul this week: “It’s like the Baghdad class of 2003 is now the Kabul class of 2009. Full Story »
Posted by Rory O'Connor
Iraq War catastrophe was direct result of MSN incompetence, and worse. And now another catastrophe may well be in the making, if Obama throws in tens of thousands more US troops in Afghanistan.