A three-paragraph story datelined Kabul tells us "U.S. Raids Suspected Al-Qaida Compounds."
Gee, from reading the papers I was under the impression we had won the war in Afghanistan. Not only that, but democracy there was alive and well, after their elections.
The press's willingness to buy the Administration's fictions did not begin and end with the NY Times' incompetence in buying and re-selling White House falsehoods about WMD and ties between Saddam and Osama.
(If you want to know more about Afghanistan, I recommend "Imperial Hubris," by Anonymous, the CIA operative and bin Laden expert who recently resigned from the agency and may now be identified as Michael Scheur.)