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Victor Davis Hanson on War & Iraq on National Review Online

Rather than inquiring how an entire country was overrun in a little over three weeks at a cost of not more than a few hundred casualties, reporters instead wail at the televised scenes of a day of looting and lawlessness.

Instead I had been expecting at least some interviews about bridges not blown due to the rapidity of the advance. Could someone tell us how special forces saved the oil fields? How Seals prevented the dreaded oil slicks? Whose courage and sacrifice saved the dams? And how so few missiles were launched? Exactly why and how did the Republican Guard cave?

In short, would any reporter demonstrate a smidgeon of curiosity other than condemning a plan they scarcely understood about the mechanics of the furious battle for Iraq?

Glad someone else noticed. 250,000 plus troops, hundreds upon hundreds of reporters, upheaval of a nation and society before our very eyes. But aside from the first three days of the thrillingmilitary-history-making drive across the desert narrated with by David Bloom and Greg Kelly, Bob Arnott and Sanji Gupta, and the irrepressible Geraldo before he got booted, the 24/7 channels along with their brethren in all the national media outlets are again doing what they do best: dog piling on two or three stories, 24/7.