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September 11, 2007
Spin on the Petraeus report
It's been interesting watching the press spin on the Petraeus report. Everywhere I see it, the headline always seems to be of the form "Petraeus recommends troop withdrawal", and the article lead-in usually reads something like, "General Petraeus recommended troop withdrawal in his testimony to Congress on this deeply unpopular war." From there the general tone is one of submission and loss, that there is no point in continuing.
However, if you keep reading to see the actual quotes from his testimony (and actually go look for longer transcripts), it seems that what he is really saying is that the troop surge has been working, that it has largely achieved what they wanted, and that they won't need them much longer.
And yet, I haven't seen a single headline, "Petraeus Calls Surge a Success".
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Rumors of my blogging death have been exaggerated
Yeah, it's been very quiet here, but I'm still around. It's just been so busy elsewhere in my life that I've had little time to blog. Also, I've moved my personal stuff over to LiveJournal and my art over to Two Sides Imaging, so that left with me trying to figure out just what content I want to put here. There will be some politics, technology and other stuff, but I haven't been much in the mood lately to write on those. That may change soon.
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