Posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:29 PM PST by Jewels1091
'IF the Northern Alliance does take Kabul on, the battle is likely to be very bloody.'
This apparent statement of FACT appeared in yesterday's Guardian newspaper.....yet by the time the paper hit the streets Kabul had fallen WITHOUT massive bloodshed
Yet again the Left was proved WRONG. Yet again, they instinctively jumped to attack the Allies. This one example - and we have many, many more - goes to prove that much of the British media has got it totally wrong since September 11 - again and again and again.
War is unpleasant. It is bloody
Of course there was some bloodshed in Kabul as it was taken. But there was not the widespread massacres predicted by so many media ''experts.''
Now, as the Taliban flee, it is time to point out how wrong the anti-American, anti-Tony Blair press has been....
For nine weeks they have pumped out anti-war propaganda as if they were the handmaidens of Osama bin Laden.
The Independent newspaper even ran a column by Saddam Hussein. Great signing, guys!
Many on the Left have actively assisted sworn enemies of this country.... and they have got it WRONG factually to boot.
Whilst they can try and defend their right to comment - they surely cannot defend the fact they got it so wrong....
The wobblers said we couldn't win the war before the winter snows set in.
THEY WERE WRONG!
They said there would be hundreds — or even thousands — of Allied deaths as Kabul fell.
THEY WERE WRONG!
They said the Americans were bombing thousands of innocent civilians and would worsen the humanitarian disaster - instead of, actually, enabling food to get through.
THEY WERE WRONG!
They said the air war could never win because bombs were falling on empty Taliban positions.
THEY WERE WRONG!
Wars are won by determined, resolute action by brave men and women.
The wobblers should hang their heads in shame. If we had listened to them in 1939 where would we be today - speaking German, that's where.
The Observer newspaper said piously: 'This war is a moral and political disaster.'
It's been a disaster for the Taliban, all right. Which side is the Observer on, exactly?
The rapid collapse of the Taliban and the taking of Kabul has proved beyond doubt that journalists allowed their blatant anti-Americanism to dicate their agenda.
Which brings us to the Mirror.... Our so-called rival has tried to cover itself in glory - trumpeting its coverage as ''in depth.''
In fact, what the The Mirror has done is nothing short of treachery.
They questioned our forces as they were engaged in action. They poured scorn on our Prime Minister at a moment of grave danger for all of us.
Hatred And they made the great error of not grasping the hurt America felt - and the right it had to deal with those that did it harm.
So, blinded by an illogical hatred of the United States, the paper went into peacenik overdrive.
Take the Mirror of Monday, October 29..... Its front page declared in enormous type: THIS WAR IS A FRAUD.
(Try telling that to the people who died in the Twin Towers - people who included Brits and Muslims.)
It gets worse... On its editorial page, the Mirror asked: Why do these people keep telling us that relentless bombing is the ONLY way to defeat bin Laden?
Then, on a two-page spread it unleashed the ageing, wandering, whinging foreign correspondent John Pilger to deliver this sickening, unpatriotic — and WRONG - view of the Afghan conflict:
'As Blair and Bush stoop to the level of the criminal outrage in New York, British forces are little more than mercenaries for the hidden agenda of U.S. imperial ambitions.'
These are some of the most disgusting words ever printed in a British newspaper. It is one thing to question the course of the war...
It is quite another to call those serving in Her Majesty's forces - and those in the uniform of the United States ''mercenaries.''
Mercenaries do things for the money - they sacrifice their values for a quick buck.
We know a few mercenaries.... like a certain corrupt newspaper editor and failed lefty columnists - who get paid handsomely for attacking our boys and girls.
It is THEY that are mercenary - not the men and women who choose to risk their lives in defence of their country for LITTLE money and LITTLE thanks.
That day's Mirror was disgusting, obscene and treacherous rubbish.
The paper then wheeled out old hack Paul Foot to 'ask the question Jack Straw won't face.'
The question was : Why wage war when there are other ways?
Foot's bilious outpouring boiled down to his 'other way' - an attack on America and Britain for subsidising Israel.
You can see where Foot's coming from. He's a great lover of the leftie Bible the New Statesman.
It carried a front page picture of Bush with the headline: THE WAR HE CANNOT WIN.
What defeatist claptrap! And how WRONG it was!
The Mirror finally sunk to new depths on November 1 with a front page headline that said: Confusion, dithering, talk of full-scale invasion and now the B52s move in - 50 days on from September 11, are we heading for another Vietnam?
Today, less than two weeks later, most of Afghanistan is in Alliance hands and peace has been restored to the major cities.
The chatterati, the armchair and pine table 'experts' who talk a lot but actually say nothing, have been shown up for the empty vessels they are.
Words are NOT harmless. They can put service people's lives at risk. Stirring up unease and disillusion is tantamount to giving succour to the enemy.
The war is not over - but it will be won.
Meanwhile, the broadcast media - led by the BBC - have happily given hours of airtime to those who misguidedly feel they have a duty to undermine the war effort.
People like Labour MP Paul Marsden, who said acidly: 'We have a Prime Minister who is letting his heart rule his head. He has no clear strategy for this war and the British public are now questioning where we're heading.'
That is a scurrilous attack on Blair, who has shown great courage, determination and leadership.
The BBC's defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan said on Radio 4 just 11 days ago: 'Mr Blair promises to 'put a trap around the Taliban regime.' But how exactly?'
Anyone could see how: By bombing them into submission. But that truth was too unpalatable for the BBC man.
Before anyone accuses us of speaking with hindsight, look at The Sun's record.
All along we have backed President Bush and Prime Minister Blair. From the very start we were fully behind the American and British forces.
We said all along that this was a war that we would win.
We never had the slightest doubt that bombing the Taliban was fully justified and would be highly effective. The proof that we were RIGHT and the Mirror and the others were WRONG came from Tony Blair yesterday.
'The military strategy has been vindicated,' he said in Downing Street.
And he paid a glowing tribute to Our Boys. 'British forces have acquitted themselves brilliantly,' he said.
To which The Sun is proud to say: Too bloody right they have.
There are trying times ahead but the Allies will win through.
There is no other choice.
It could just as well be reprinted here, and apply to US media.
"Chatterati;" what an apt and discriptive word for these lefties.
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