The brouhaha over disguising positive stories by GIs passed off as written by Iraqi reporters is as usual another example of this administration having trouble with modus operandi. Surely, there is nothing wrong with letting Iraqis know that there is much reconstruction going on and not all door-kicking. The essential problem is with the Pentagon and its subterranean operations with contractors on the sly. The simplest solution is to send in stories and great pictures to the local papers, just as China sends PR material to the Post’s Weekly, labeled as advertisement, of course, it loses its journalistic value somewhat, yet it is effective. A better way would be to issue Stars & Stripes and Leatherneck in Arabic. Another alternative would be to urge Iraqi papers to print GI e-mail sent to them.