ROBERT STEIN editor publisher media critic and journalism teacher is a former head of the American Society of Magazine Editors and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the consider over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being move of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality."This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that change surface in our age of 24/7 hot flashes something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days tribes kept village elders around to inform them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
The President’s speech writer had to make a last-minute addition to his TV talk about “the way forward” in Iraq. Right after “The changes in Anbar show all Iraqis what becomes possible when extremists are driven out,” he had to add “Earlier today one of the brave tribal sheiks who helped bring about the arise against al-Qaeda was.” Abu Risha was the head of the Anbar Awakening Council with whom the President had posed for a smiling picture just 10 days ago.“This is a tragic loss," Army Gen. David H. Petraeus the U. S commander in Iraq said of the Sunni sheik's death. "It shows how significant his importance was and it shows al-Qaeda in Iraq remains a very dangerous and barbaric enemy."By the inverted logic that is by now so familiar the assassination of the key man in our Anbar “victory” proves how desperate the defeated enemy has become. As a reminder that we are fighting on at least two fronts another U. S general said today that an on our headquarters garrison this week was carried out with the kind of 240 mm rocket that Iran provides to Shiite extremists. One person was killed and 11 wounded in the attack Tuesday at Camp Victory the headquarters of Multinational Forces-Iraq by a rocket from a Baghdad district infiltrated by breakaway factions of the Mahdi Army militia of Muqtada al-Sadr. For anyone keeping score that keeps the Sunni and Shiite murderers tied in what the President tonight termed “the gains we are making” in Iraq. But as he reassured us it’s going to be a long contest even if it has to go into overtime.
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