On NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams introduced a Bob Engel story entitled "Shifting Strategy," about the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan.
Here's what I learned in the report:
- The U.S. has lost 42 soldiers fighting there.
- The locals don't trust the U.S.
- The Army is pulling out lock, stock and barrel, exploding anything they can't airlift out so the Taliban can't get it.
- A U.S. soldier said on camera that after the Army pulls out, the Taliban will be onsite in "15 or 20 minutes."
I don't know about you, but that all adds up to one thing, and it's not properly called "shifting strategy."
It's called a "retreat."
Yet at NO point in the report did Williams or Engel use the "R" word. The bugout was phrased as just another day in the complicated war in Afghanistan.
At least the Washington Post got it right in this piece: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
They call it what it is, a retreat, right in the headline.
UPDATE: Ah, screw it. WaPo caved as well, two minutes after I published this. They now just say "U.S. forces leave Afghanistan's Korengal Valley."
Your liberal media at work.