There was a time when, if you screwed up enough, there were consequences. Lets say your woeful incompetence exacerbated the destruction of an American city. There was a time that would have immediately cost you your job. Not in the Bush administration. Under Bush, such utter imbecility is rewarded with a pat on the back.
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We all remember the early days of the Iraq war, when Bush’s machismo swelled to the point where he felt the need to goad the insurgency by taunting them to bring on their attacks on US soldiers. Thousands of US soldiers have died since that statement but it appears little was learned.
Today, Condoleezza Rice brought [...]
I was just reading Richard Cullen’s piece on the lack of popular anti-war music and I think he’s missing something.
Music, say some sociologists, is just one manifestation of a more fundamental trend. Opposition to the Iraq war, which commands strong majorities in the polls, has not produced mass marches on the Pentagon or shut down [...]