I’ve been meaning to say something about MSNBC’s Bob Arnot for some time now. Of all the reporters currently covering Iraq (and I only really watch NBC and MSNBC, because I don’t get any other cable news nets and, well, they play Imus in the Morning), he’s far and away the one who covers the successes (and there are many) with anything resembling the gusto with which most cover the failures (there are plenty of those, too). He’s a one-man antidote to the police-blotter reporting that’s given so much ammunition to the anti-warriors and anti-Bushites (who, I think it’s safe to assume, comprise a large perecentage of the people doing the reporting). His reports on last night’s edition of Chris Matthews’s Hardball were no exception. Take a look at the other, more accurate (and therefore, unsurprisingly, more positive) side of the story. (Link courtesy of Instapundit.)
For further illustration of how deceptive the “things are getting worse and worse” meme really is, here are a few examples of it–from World War II. (Links courtesy of Little Green Footballs.)
Finally, Christopher Hitchens does his usual comprehensive job dismantling the notion that true peace was ever going to be possible with Saddam Hussein and friends, and Andrew Sullivan shoots down Wesley Clark’s attempts to claim that the Kosovo War was justified while Gulf War II was not. (Might I add that the eminently just and justifiable Kosovo campaign, which Clark touts as proof of his military acumen, was an atrociously planned and executed near-disaster?)