The morning after the U.S. began the bombing of Iraq, NBC's Robert Bazell reported the Pentagon's assessment via the Today show: "It was spectacular news," Bazell summarized. "We've lost only one casualty." Other networks were similarly ecstatic. CBS's Charles Osgood (1/17/91) described the early bombing of Iraq as "a marvel," while the same network's Jim Stewart (1/17/91) spoke of "two days of almost picture-perfect assaults." The war ended on the same note of enthusiastic cheerleading from …showed first 75 words of 2093 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2093 total…forget and you don't forgive and you carry on the vendetta and the struggle long after people in the west would be prepared to say all right, it's over, let's not worry about it any longer. Offered as the bombs were beginning to fall on Baghdad, these observations on the vengeful nature of non-Christian societies come across as somewhat surreal. Usually missing from the news was analysis from a perspective critical of U.S. policy