That sounds to me like an important signpost on the road to - dare anyone
say it - victory. Perhaps after the "Mission Accomplished" PR blunder and
previous upsurges in violence, the Bush administration and McCain are
hesitant to call attention to such progress. If they don't make noise, how
will the public, which has a short attention span and doesn't like
protracted conflict, know about it?
Another sign of progress was the announcement that the Iraqi government will
award contracts to 41 foreign oil firms in an effort to increase production.
It's the first time foreign energy companies have been allowed in Iraq since
Saddam Hussein expelled them 36 years ago.
Only those invested in defeat will deny these significant and meaningful
indicators of progress.
Because there will be no documents of surrender in the Iraq war or in the
greater war on terrorism, it will be difficult to declare it over and
freedom the winner. But as The New York Times story and the oil deal
demonstrate, considerable progress is being made and the naysayers are being
proved wrong.
Who is going to tell that story if most of the big media won't? Since
journalists never acknowledge errors of judgment or wrong predictions and
are never held accountable when they err, that job must fall to John McCain.