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http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/01/column.billpress/ index.html In each case, the truth belies the praise. If the military's doing such a great job, why -- after three weeks of nonstop, intensive bombing of one of the poorest countries on earth, with no navy, no air force and only a ragtag band of soldiers using obsolete weapons -- is the Taliban still in power?
In past wars, CNN has been rather accurately called "Communist News Network", but in this war they seem incapable of mentioning the fact that our armed forces frequently fuck up. When the airforce started blasting Taliban front line positions, the press's natural response was to interview the Northern Alliance commanders, who were watching the raids. The Northern alliance commanders all said that the targeting sucked, and had to be fixed, that the bombing was ineffectual, that the bombs were just rearranging the rocks, that it had to be done differently. It was very difficult to discern this thumbs down from the cnn network. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SxRU3lHqgtYAV0RggQdcQczDfESW1m138LY24Kfn 4t7GYJnNJiF8/qHlhz4wEO/M1pCLlB3M2JNHJpkKn