It is a War

Hugh Hewitt has a great article in the LA Times, Cover the Terror War as a War, where he explains how The Times needs to cover the war. Some excerpts:

The Times does do the occasional big-picture story. For instance, on Sept. 26, a Page 1 article, "Al Qaeda Seen as Wider Threat," described the Iraq war as "a new front in the battle against terrorism and a rallying point for a seemingly endless supply of young extremists willing to die in a jihad, or holy war." But it relied too heavily on experts who seem most concerned that the invasion of Iraq has triggered an expansion in the ranks of jihadists. Imagine a newspaper during World War II giving so much space to people fretting that the Army's victory over the Japanese at Guadalcanal would only make the combined enemy forces more eager to fight on Iwo Jima and Normandy — though indeed the first major victory in the Pacific might very well have had exactly that effect.
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Do more to identify and inform the readers on the organization, leadership and capabilities of the Islamist terrorist network, paying more attention to experts who support the war in Iraq and believe, along with President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and many others, that the battles there will ultimately slow the spread of terrorism elsewhere.
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In short, The Times needs to reorganize to actually cover the war as a war. The last global war was not covered as though the Pacific Theater was independent of the battles in North Africa, or the Russian front disconnected from the D-day invasion.

The story is good read. Read the whole article here.