Wherein Michael Ledeen reveals how out of touch he is:
WHERE’S THE MEDIA? [Michael Ledeen]
In March, 2004, nearly two hundred people were killed and hundreds more wounded in suicide attacks on the occasion of the Ashurah, the holiest day in the Shi’ite calendar. The disaster led the news. last year Karbala was relatively calm, but there were bombings in Baghdad. Again, big news. This year, millions of people filled the streets of Karbala, and there was no violence. And Baghdad was also pretty calm. You might think this was newsworthy, but of course you’d be wrong. And you know why the MSM did not compare this year’s celebration with those of the recent past: the comparison would have suggested progress, and that’s taboo. Better to focus on Cheney’s TV preferences.
Or perhaps they are paying attention to how our Afghan-installed government is flirting with the idea of killing a man for the crime of worshipping Jesus Christ. Ledeen is looking forward to Iran while the rest of the West is looking with horror at Afghanistan and Palestine and wondering why on Earth anyone listened to the insane neocon theory about how democracy would save the Middle East.