A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

Where’s all the outrage over dead soldiers now?

The media seems to only be upset about military deaths when a Republican is in office.  Byron York of the Washington Examiner reminds us just how insistent the press (and Left) was during President Bush's presidency that we not "hide" the caskets of returning deceased soldiers, and how disinterested they are in covering the story now.  Wonder why that is...

So far this month, 38 American troops have been killed in Afghanistan. For all of 2009, the number is 220 -- more than any other single year and more than died in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 combined.

With casualties mounting, the debate over U.S. policy in Afghanistan is sharp and heated. The number of arrivals at Dover is increasing. But the journalists who once clamored to show the true human cost of war are nowhere to be found.

I am completely on board with the notion that reminding Americans of the very real costs of this war is a good thing, but does the media really care?  Was the push to get permission to publish photos of the caskets politically-driven?  I hope not, but it's hard to imagine that it wasn't.