Ignatius In The Country Of The Blind

By Steve Hynd

David Ignatius writes, in his Washington Post column today, about the latest terrible bomb blasts in Baghdad and how, despite those and a rising tide of other attacks, the "Surge (TM) is still a success. On his whereabouts at the time, he says that:

Around the time the bombers struck, I was flying over the city in a Black Hawk helicopter with Gen. David Petraeus...We didn't learn about the horrific bombings until we landed in the Green Zone. I guess that tells you something about the difference between life, close up, and what you see from several hundred feet.

I am, frankly, flabbergasted. They didn't notice this from the air?

If Ignatius is that unobservant, then he's sure to be an even worse reporter than everyone already thinks he is! But what about Petraeus, is he so blind as well? If so, he shouldn't be in command of a fairground ride, let alone CentCom.

Or is Ignatius perhaps being economical with the truth about where he was at the time? Someone should ask Petraeus' office.

Comments

[shaun]

Ignatius gets a pass on this one. The surge was a success militarily, but the Al Maliki government willfully ignored those gains and the window of opportunity they presented. The horrific bomb blasts are a result of the latter and not the former.