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...Saddam.” When the bully from Baghdad refuses to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back in Iraq, U.S. air power will pulverize his military infrastructure (including its weapons production facilities), allowing the Iraqi National Congress to oust him. France will fret; Arab states will feign disapproval to appease radical factions of their citizenry. But the coalition will survive. (Funny how the coalition survived in spite of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, in spite of bombing during Ramadan, in spite of everything else the neurotic nail-biters said would crumble it.) The Iraqi people will be freer. The world will...
...Queda, the President made clear, is different. And in his speech the President made defeating this particular hodgepodge the defining mission of his presidency. His take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Taliban was really just a feign at rushing headlong into a military assault on Afghanistan; there?s no way that the Kabul crowd would accept the president?s demand that they open their country for inspection and "hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure." That?d be most of the Taliban regime...
...Queda, the President made clear, is different. And in his speech the President made defeating this particular hodgepodge the defining mission of his presidency. His take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Taliban was really just a feign at rushing headlong into a military assault on Afghanistan; there?s no way that the Kabul crowd would accept the president?s demand that they open their country for inspection and "hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure." That?d be most of the Taliban regime...
...reporting keeps us from getting at the truth. We tap out stories that are so balanced that they're largely useless in helping people see the world. ("While some say the deficit is worrisome, other argue that it's not a problem.") There's no reason journalists should idiotically feign utter neutrality in the wake of the 9/11 attack; that would be ridiculous. When network anchors use words like evil to describe what happened last week it's both obvious and appropriate...
...going to feign shock at the fact that this President is using photo ops in an attempt - some might say a cynical attempt - to influence public opinion. It would be news if he weren't doing just that. But it is worth noting that in the same week that Bush ventured to a pristine piece of the country to help maintain a nature trail and to tout the money he's put in his budget to help restore national parks, the news out of Washington carried a very different message. The Washington Post ran an article about the Bush Administration...