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Monday, May 16, 2005

Operation Matador: BBC Finds a Gray Lining in Victory

What would we do as a society without the BBC? As Operation Matador on the Syrian-Iraq border winds down, BBC is able to find the bad news, even if innacurate, in an American victory:

1) The BBC's Jim Muir, in Baghdad, says the operation appears to have exacerbated tribal tensions in the area; and
2) "The city of Qaim lies destroyed."

Two of the best bloggers on the Iraq War, Chrenkoff and The Fourth Rail, have more on the successful operation that you may not see elsewhere.