It continues, and somehow the TV news coverage enthralls and disappoints at the same time. It does strike me that correspondents have far too little time to actually do any reporting rather than pieces to camera.
Sky has poor David Chater reporting live practically around the clock. Last night there were a few explosions in Bagdhad, and he was back on the TV practically pleading to be allowed a few hours sleep before coming to air again.
Sadly, “friendly fire” seems to be the biggest taker of casualties to date, with three helicopters and a Tornado having either crashed or inadvertantly been shot down. And the guys missing from ITN are not believed to have been victims of “friendly fire” too.
There was a very interesting piece in one of the papers yesterday saying that the war has been taking an unexpected route (not quite the total anhilation that might have been expected of “shock and awe”) because of the peace protests that took place around the world. In other words, we may not have prevented war, but it is being fought in a very different manner. Rather than engage cities in hostile street to street fighting, they simply get cut off and moved around, leaving any remaining forces to either disperse or give up.