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Pondering the legacy media’s dour coverage of Operation Epic Fury in Iran, we wonder whether the disjunction between reality and rationalization has ever been greater. The reality is that the United States and Israel have crushed Iran and its proxies. The rationalization, supported by a fervent anti-Trump animus, is that America has somehow lost the war that it just won. “Advantage Iran,” declared a headline on the cover of The Economist after that country’s entire official navy had been sunk, its air force and air-defense systems obliterated, and almost its entire leadership eliminated twice over. Those commentators who have compared the bluster from the Iranian regime and our complicit media to the Monty Python skit about the Black Knight are closer to reality. King Arthur slices off both of the knight’s arms; then he chops off both his legs. The knight continues to insist that he is winning the fight. “It’s just a flesh wound,” he cries.
The world witnessed similar follies in the 1960s and 1970s. Think of the biased coverage of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968. Reading The New York Times, you would have hardly known that the South Vietnamese and American forces repelled the offensive in a rousing victory. The media presented it as a defeat. The sage of Ecclesiastes was right: there is nothing new under the sun, though many of our most prominent cultural figures seem to believe that they occupy a unique perch at the very apogee of virtue and moral rectitude and are therefore entitled, oh how entitled, to discard the achievements and admonitions of the past as so many false starts and dead ends on the way to true enlightenment, which is to say to whatever they happen to believe at the moment.
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The world witnessed similar follies in the 1960s and 1970s. Think of the biased coverage of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968. Reading The New York Times, you would have hardly known that the South Vietnamese and American forces repelled the offensive in a rousing victory. The media presented it as a defeat. The sage of Ecclesiastes was right: there is nothing new under the sun, though many of our most prominent cultural figures seem to believe that they occupy a unique perch at the very apogee of virtue and moral rectitude and are therefore entitled, oh how entitled, to discard the achievements and admonitions of the past as so many false starts and dead ends on the way to true enlightenment, which is to say to whatever they happen to believe at the moment.
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