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| Michael Yon is watching American TV in Mosul |
| 2008-03-12 |
| Credibility Match: Fred Kagan vs. Nir Rosen With Jim Lehrer in the Ring Wednesday, 12 March 2008, Mosul, Iraq Sorting out the truth about the war in Iraq has always been difficult. The first challenge is deciding whom to listen to and whom to just ignore. Listen to someone who is truthful and knows what he's talking about, ignore the blatherers. Simple enough. The difficulty comes in sorting out who is who. I greeted Fred Kagan with some skepticism at first, yet the more he talks about Iraq, the more apparent it becomes that his words are measured and resonate with the truth on the ground here. Not so with Nir Rosen. This morning I watched the television screen in Mosul as Kagan and Rosen debated Iraq, hosted by Jim Lehrer. Kagan's statements were entirely consistent with what I see and hear unfolding here. By comparison, Rosen came across as a new Baghdad Bob. While he might be articulate, well dressed and highly credentialed, Rosen's characterizations of the situation were at best inconsistent with ground-based realities, and at worst completely false . Kagan is worth listening to. Nir Rosen is not. Michael Yon, Mosul, Iraq |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Ok, I checked. Rosen is a left-wing whack job and a real worldly intellectual at the ripe age of 31. Nice that Yon reports on this guys lies. |
| Posted by: Remoteman 2008-03-12 14:40 |
| #1 I hope Michael Yon continues with this line of thinking. I would greatly enjoy seeing him rate the major pundits for accuracy. Can you imagine the response of the MSM to pundits talking about Iraq being rated as "poor", for their ignorance, prejudice and general bias? All Yon would have to do is make a list of them, with 1 to 5 star rating for "accurate", "informative", and "objective". Hopefully it would get wide distribution through the conservative media. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-03-12 10:42 |