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November 29, 2007

Why won’t anybody report the good news from the war?

By Thoreau

Afghanistan is making huge leaps in agriculture.  Why won’t the liberal media report that?

They’re painting schools!  OK, in psychedelic colors, but still!

(Hat tip to Jacob Sullum.)

Posted by Thoreau @ 11:30 am, Filed under: Main

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8 Responses to “Why won’t anybody report the good news from the war?”

  1. Comment by mds —
    November 29, 2007 @ 12:26 pm

    Wait, I’ve got it! All along, this was a clever plan to destroy the War on (Some) Drugs by burying it under an irresistible tide of opium. Here I thought the Bush Administration had merely completely fucked up another occupation, but they’ve secretly been on our side all along!

    (Apparently, they’ve also been subtly trying to undermine the military-industrial complex by destroying the army and indulging in what they thought would be sufficiently disgusting blatant crony capitalism, but that one’s been more frustrating for them. But it’s not too late. Surely someone will stop them if they pretend they want to invade Iran.)

  2. Comment by Derek Copold —
    November 29, 2007 @ 2:02 pm

    What the “good news” in Iraq comes down to is that we’re winning (for now) a war that we never needed to fight which will still end up handing a good chunk of the place over to a regime sympathetic to Iran.

  3. Comment by Thoreau —
    November 29, 2007 @ 2:21 pm

    All this cultivation just made me realize something: Afghanistan has huge…tracts of land!

  4. Comment by Gary Farber —
    November 29, 2007 @ 9:53 pm

    The AP story was a light cover of Sunday’s NY Times piece.

  5. Comment by Gary Farber —
    November 29, 2007 @ 9:54 pm

    The AP story was a light cover of a three-week-old NY Times piece.

  6. Comment by Karen —
    November 29, 2007 @ 10:16 pm

    Maybe Hamid Karzai will come out in favor of legalization? It would seriously help his GDP.

  7. Comment by mds —
    November 29, 2007 @ 10:41 pm

    Maybe Hamid Karzai will come out in favor of legalization? It would seriously help his GDP.

    Except that then the US might decide it’s time for a new mayor of Kabul president of a free and independent Afghanistan.

  8. Comment by bad Jim —
    November 30, 2007 @ 6:26 am

    Isn’t this, one way or another, good news? It says, in effect, that the demand for cannabis equals or exceeds the demand for opiates. More of us, it seems, demand mignight pizza or impromptu pineapple upside-down cakes than throng the angry streets looking for a fix. Is this bad news?

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