"In the world which is upside down, the true is a moment of the false."
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 what he said.. from a must read piece by david remnick (wow, did i just really say that?) in the new yorker: Does anyone—save, perhaps, a small core of conservative zealots—still believe that there will be an easy solution to the crisis in Iraq? Perhaps the most discouraging aspect of all this is that, at least until January 20, 2005, George W. Bush is in charge of Iraq’s future and America’s. Through sheer lack of humility and competence, he has squandered the good will of vast numbers of Iraqis and Americans and American allies, and it is difficult to imagine him acquiring the skill and wisdom to regain it. John Kerry has yet to present a clear set of ideas about this crisis. As a candidate, he is a sterling biography in search of a coherent language. He must find one. At a moment when Bush is on the defensive as never before--with Iraq, the 9/11 commission, and the critiques of insiders like Richard Clarke and Paul O’Neill--Kerry has seemed to recede. In many respects, the fusillade of attack ads produced by Karl Rove and company are patently unfair and intellectually dishonest, but Kerry has made it too easy for the White House to make him seem vague on Iraq. Kerry faces a real dilemma. Bumper-sticker clarity is not an option for him. Compared with Bush’s simplicities, Kerry’s views have been complex. The nuances and conditions of both his original support for authorizing force and his later critique of how that authority was used suggest that he recognizes that Iraq is an American responsibility, not just a Republican one. It falls to Kerry to disprove the conservative zealots’ favorite canard: that subtlety of vision is inconsistent with strength and cogency of action. hear, hear. the spinanes: "greetings from the sugarlick" "all your bad plays and morning after days don't mean a thing to this hair of the dog crowd..." posted by downtown | 3:36 AM |
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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