News That’s Not News

At least at the New York Times. Or if it was “fit to print,” they buried it pretty well.

“US Military Deaths In Iraq Lowest In Fourteen Months.”

Guess it doesn’t fit the template. Or help the Defeatocrats.

[Update in the afternoon]

It’s not just the military deaths that are dropping.

I should note, for anti-war loons. I don’t actually put that much stock in these kinds of statistics, for reasons I mentioned in comments–they don’t actually necessarily presage the future. I simply point them out to those who are so eager to leap on them when they think that they tell the false narrative that they want told.

[Update in mid afternoon]

For those who are into this kind of numerology, here is a lot more analysis by John Wixted.