Jonah Goldberg compares troop morale in Vietnam and Iraq and writes:

There are lots of stories, many heartbreaking, about family hardships, soldiers missing their homes, battle stress and the like. But they don't "feel" like stories coming from another Vietnam. Lord knows the press is looking for these kinds of stories. And yet we do hear a lot from troops about how they want to see this through and how they don't want this to be another Vietnam (i.e. they don't want to see America turn its back on the Iraqis the way it did on the South Vietnamese). Maybe I'm missing something(s), but as far as dogs that don't bark go, this is a pretty big dog.

(For an earlier media dog that didn't bark, click here.)

Update: Elsewhere, Patterico looks at the sources that Big Media uses for its Iraq stories and writes, "It’s very sobering to realize that much of the news coming out of Iraq is completely unreliable".

Another Update: Charles Johnson writes:

Curt at Flopping Aces has received confirmation from CENTCOM that “Iraqi police Capt. Jamil Hussein,” cited as a source (often the only source) in a long string of media articles about murders and atrocities in Iraq (including the recent report of 6 people burned alive), is not a police officer, nor is he employed by Iraq’s Interior Ministry.