IRAQ: The good news is that the bad news is dead:

The death of an American soldier is front page news, while the death of his attacker is buried deep inside the paper, if reported at all. But there’s another reason why the response to attacks are rarely reported. The military judiciously applies force, which means there’s often no big explosion to show the viewing public back home. The enemy blows up civilians, while coalition forces use precision strikes to remove enemy combatants. But more to the point, the media are a lazy beast and, it seems, the Pentagon hasn’t been doing a good job feeding it.

They’re probably afraid of looking too “bloodthirsty.” But I wonder if some of those people Katie Couric cites as disapproving the President’s handling of Iraq might be unhappy because they think we’re being too gentle, not because they want to bring the troops home. I can think of a few.