More doom from the Times - figures...

I was optimistic about the NY Times article that ran today titled, "Part-Time Forces on Active Duty Decline Steeply."

It started off as a nice article about how the reserve and national guard troops are coming home, and how that is so wonderful for families, employers, etc.

Then, in classic Times fashion, never to let good news win the day, they have the proverbial "but", pointing out that the "Army is running perilously low on its Reserve and National Guard soldiers."

Can you hear it? Sounds like "Augh! We are going to die!"

See the problem is that the Times will not allow any news that looks good for the Bush Administration or the Military to be cast in positive light. They must find the problem and focus on that.

They say, "To fill the pivotal support jobs for deployments to Iraq, Army and Pentagon planners are increasingly turning to the Navy and Air Force to provide truck drivers and security personnel."

Can't you hear the sniveling tone in this: "Oh no! See, Iraq isn't any better - its worse! Now we have to get the Navy and Air Force involved. See, o'sneeky Bush is at it again. Trying to make it look like troop reductions when he is really just shifting it around. See."

Yes Times - we see. We see that you cannot even report on good news without trying to make it into a doom and gloom. It is tragic really.