President George Bush And National Security Adviser Stephen HadleyTurning The Iraq Tide, From The Bottom Up -- CBS News
Former Marine, Author Says The Perspective of Grunts On The Ground, And A Visionary Sunni Sheik, Reversed Course Of War
(CBS) Who TRULY deserves the credit for the turnaround in the U.S. position in Iraq? It's a much-debated question, which our National Security Correspondent David Martin now addresses in this Sunday Journal:
The wealth and leisure of Newport, Rhode Island are about as far removed from Iraq as you can get.
Bing West lives here among the mega-yachts and mansions, yet it is Iraq which keeps drawing him back.
"I'm a writer," he told Martin. "I wanted to see for myself how this war was unfolding and at my age I had the opportunity to do it, and so I took the opportunity."
"But some people might say: 'Exactly, at your age, you're living the good life, why? Why do you need to do this?'" Martin asked.
"I think somebody should try to tell the story from the perspective of somebody who has fought an insurgency, who understands it," West said.
West was a Marine in Vietnam, and wrote a book about it, "The Village," which is now considered a classic work on counterinsurgency. But his exposure to what happens on a battlefield goes back further than that.
Read more ....
My Comment: After finishing reading this CBS post, I would recommend reading the following CBS 60 minutes post on Bob Woodward .... Bob Woodward says the brass actually opposed the surge.
Both posts from CBS are excellent. This is the main stream media at its best.
No comments:
Post a Comment