Posted by Jed Lewison on Sat Jul 12, 2008 at 1:31 AM Pacific

This is why we must win this election

I'm tempted to apologize for railing on the media in post after post. It feels like Groundhog Day after awhile. But the thing I'm trying to remember is that it's not my fault that so many reporters are failing this nation so completely.

The latest: ABC's Martha Raddatz and U.S. military commanders in Iraq team up to attack Barack Obama's plan to end the war in Iraq  (also in text format). They make two points: (1) They don't want to stop fighting the war. (2) If Obama gives them a mission to end the war, they will say it is logistically impossible to end the war in a timely fashion.

I don't know which is worse: that military commanders would so brazenly inject themselves into a presidential campaign, or that Raddatz would accept what they had to say uncritically, without even pondering the possibility that she was being fed propaganda.

Whatever the case, it's a forceful reminder of the fundamental truth of President Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex. And it should firm our resolve to win this election: this is our country, and we must take it back.

This is why we must win this election

I'm tempted to apologize for railing on the media in post after post. It feels like Groundhog Day after awhile. But the thing I'm trying to remember is that it's not my fault that so many reporters are failing this nation so completely.

The latest: ABC's Martha Raddatz and U.S. military commanders in Iraq team up to attack Barack Obama's plan to end the war in Iraq  (also in text format). They make two points: (1) They don't want to stop fighting the war. (2) If Obama gives them a mission to end the war, they will say it is logistically impossible to end the war in a timely fashion.

I don't know which is worse: that military commanders would so brazenly inject themselves into a presidential campaign, or that Raddatz would accept what they had to say uncritically, without even pondering the possibility that she was being fed propaganda.

Whatever the case, it's a forceful reminder of the fundamental truth of President Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex. And it should firm our resolve to win this election: this is our country, and we must take it back.

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