The Great Divider - NY Times Editorial

[Jon8503]

Published: November 2, 2006

As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar pattern of ugly behavior. Since he can’t defend the real world created by his policies and his decisions, Mr. Bush is inventing a fantasy world in which to campaign on phony issues against fake enemies.

In Mr. Bush’s world, America is making real progress in Iraq. In the real world, as Michael Gordon reported in yesterday’s Times, the index that generals use to track developments shows an inexorable slide toward chaos. In Mr. Bush’s world, his administration is marching arm in arm with Iraqi officials committed to democracy and to staving off civil war. In the real world, the prime minister of Iraq orders the removal of American checkpoints in Baghdad and abets the sectarian militias that are slicing and dicing their country.

In Mr. Bush’s world, there are only two kinds of Americans: those who are against terrorism, and those who somehow are all right with it. Some Americans want to win in Iraq and some don’t. There are Americans who support the troops and Americans who don’t support the troops. And at the root of it all is the hideously damaging fantasy that there is a gulf between Americans who love their country and those who question his leadership.

Rest of article @ link below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/opinion/02thu1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Cooley Hurd]

1. K&R - and the NYT editorial board STILL needs to attone for Judy Miller...

:thumbsdown:

[babylonsister]

2. Wow. It's gonna be a long two years unless he resigns or

gets booted. So much for being a uniter.

[pretzel4gore]

3. this beats fiction...

mind you, being entertained isn't a substitute for living in a well run society that at least admits it aint ever gonna be perfect (perfection, of course, is the xian ideal, and the world won't have it anyway)...it's insane the chaos that a crazy bush can create; let's just hope fear of marshal dillon keeps them from going too far!