A Question about This Letter from a US Soldier in Iraq

No, the question isn’t whether it will get published outside of the center-right blogosphere; of course it won’t.

Here are the key grafs from the letter, which you can see in its entirety at Ace’s place:

Know this, our soldiers will not quit. We win every battle, we hold any piece of ground that we want to take.
Do not listen to those in Washington who influence events by dishonesty, manipulation and greed. Listen to your hearts and know that America is a winner. We will not accept defeat.
Don’t be fooled by the news media who so dishonorably portrays one side of the story for gain and sensationalism. We are not losing, we are not running, the enemy is reeling and is scared.

The question is “When we win (the only reason we won’t being that we won’t be allowed to by the political class), will anyone in the formerly Mainstream Media dare to report it?”

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I can see it now –

Baghdad, January 2017 (Associated with the remnants of Al Jazeera Press): An IED with the explosive force of a firecracker exploded by the side of a road outside the city today. Several children were seen in the vicinity, but none of the insurgents who planted the explosive were visible.

Though no one was hurt, several children complained of ringing ears.

The explosion showed that the insurgency, now in its 14th year, is gaining strength and is far from defeated.

In Washington, Senator Chelsea Clinton introduced a resolution calling for the withdrawal of the 10,000 remaining US soldiers, saying that “we must acknowledge that Iraq’s 13-year experiment with democracy has failed despite 12 successful elections and an economy that has grown at double-digit annual rates during the past decade. We must recognize our failure and redeploy our troops to, uh, uh, Long Island.”