Thanks, Bruce. These sound reasonable, and I had not seen them.

I do feel concerned that this positive news-spin will (a) make people feel unnecessarily optimistic about the state of affairs in the Arab world and (b) that Mister Bush and those like him will have established an imperial precedent of unique magnitude, presenting the notion that a unilateral invasion, costing thousands in deaths and billions in treasure, framed on false rationale and clouded in intentional distortions, can be justified.

Men like Bush, and his key henchmen, energize and disseminate the idea that a good end justifies foul means. He is a paradigmatic example of the idea. And it's a shitty idea.


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