Without getting straight to the Out-Now question, it seems obvious that everyone would be better off if the Bushies admitted the plain reality right now, The war is a giant failure. Misconceived, misguided, mis-everything’d—whatever, it isn’t working at all. (And…
I was checking out the Christian Science Monitor’s remarkable series of intimate photographs of Jill Carroll’s reunion with her parents, hugging her father, falling over in her mother’s lap, when I felt the tears falling on my keyboard. http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/2006/homecoming2/index.html Why…
Amid all the joy over Jill Carroll’s release, it’s pretty inspiring that her father immediately called attention to the other kidnap victims still unaccounted for and that the Christian Science Monitor has set up a fund for the family of…
The freeing of Jill Carroll (a joyful moment, need I add) is a reminder that there is no democracy in Iraq. Democracy depends on free speech and a vigorous press—what kind of democracy is it where reporters are afraid to…