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Originally Posted by powerclown
Not at all. I fully acknowledge the violence brought on by the Insurgency upon the populace. How can one miss it? What IS easy to miss is the non-violent, apparently unworthy-of-news changes taking place within Iraq.
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It doesn't appear that you do - you stated that the exceptionally marginal positive items you listed are more relevant than the lives that are being lost.
I guess in a sense, that is acknowledgement - acknowledgement through the act of marginalization.
Big news, which if it were not covered by the press would be a great disservice, will be when Iraq has more electricity than it did prior to the war. Big news will be when hundreds and hundreds of people don't die every month. Big news will be the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
But the building of a bridge in Amara? 7000 pens and 700 pairs of shoes were donated? The lack of blazing 72-point headlines of such information disappoints you?