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Monday, May 12, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/nyt_throws_dems_under_the_bu
| For the past month and a half, the Democrats and their anti-war propagandists have had a very clear narrative about what happened in Basra since Prime Minister Maliki ordered an offensive there on March 24. First, they said, Basra proves that the Iraqi Security Forces remain feckless and incompetent, a failed force that was routed by the militias. Second, what unfolded in Basra is not really a fight between the Iraqi Security Forces of the legitimate Iraqi state, backed by the U.S., on the one hand, and a bunch of theocratic criminal gangs, backed by Iran, on the other; on the contrary, it’s just an intra-Shiite civil war between equally pernicious and morally repugnant factions (Sadrists versus Badrists) all of whom are equally bad. Third, Basra was a humiliating defeat for Prime Minister Maliki, and a major win for Iran.
Alas for the Democrats and their blogger friends, the front page of today’s New York Times neatly demolishes each of these arguments ("Et tu, Bill Keller?"). The story, filed from Basra, reveals that just about everything said about Basra by the Democrats over the past seven weeks is, well, wrong. According to the Times , in the seven weeks since Prime Minister Maliki ordered an offensive against the Iranian-backed militias terrorizing the city, Basra has been nothing less than "transformed":
In a rare success, forces loyal to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki have largely quieted the city, to the ... |
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