"Sensationalism was always the stuff of war reporting, but today it is with us in real time, 24/7,

... offered up by often anonymous sources, and filtered in a matter of hours or minutes by nameless editors and producers. Those relentless news alerts—tucked in between apparently more important exposés about Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith—ultimately impart a sense of confusion and bewilderment about what war is."

Read Victor Davis Hanson's In War: Resolution, a synopsis of errors through all the wars until this one.

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