Resilience watch, done defiantly
Mar 19, 2007 Medialites, Orient, Stragety
Insty points to Jules Crittenden, who writes:
The AP’s Stephen R. Hurst proclaims the resilience of Sunni insurgents!
BAGHDAD (AP) – Sunni insurgents, resilient despite the five-week security crackdown in the capital, killed at least six more American troops over the weekend. A Sunni car bomber hit a largely Shiite district in the capital Sunday, killing at least eight people.
I’m getting a warm and fuzzy Pravda kind of feel off that, the ”resilience.” Stalwart insurgents resiliently marching forward! You have to troll the North Korean web to find that kind of thing these days!
I have one thing to add. One key word that Jules forgot to focus on when writing about this kind of writing:
DEFIANT!
You always know the bad guys are losing when the opposition press starts describing them as defiant. Arafat was always defiant. Castro? Señor Desafiante. Not only losers — Iran is always defiant. The little genocidal mullahs that could. As long as they’re on the other side, they’re defiant or, as we see, frequently resilient.
By and large, though, the more defiant they get, the better we’re doing. Even if they’re about to blow their own brains out. Just do tell me when you read an MSM account of meek submission, pathetic surrender or broken acknowledgment of defeat by any enemy of the United States or its allies.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:04 am
The attitude of defiance is just that: an attitude. Lots of people share that attitude, on both sides of the conflict. And/But it means nothing, one way or the other.
The only thing that means anything is who wins and who loses.
March 19th, 2007 at 11:16 am
The little genocidal mullahs that could
Ron Coleman analyzes the chattering class’ affection for the defiant ones:
You always know the bad guys are losing when the opposition press st…
March 19th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Ara, tell me when the MSM describes George Bush as “defiant” or “resilient” in his prosecution of the Iraq war!
March 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
No, Bush is “arrogant” and “contemptuous” as his “hubris” of “autocratic” policies “scorn” the will of the American people.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
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