Paths of glory
"The pursuit of televised glory — which led the Bush administration to turn its attention away from Al Qaeda … has made us much less safe than we should be." [→ READ ]
Paul Krugman:
Saddam wasn’t a threat to America — he had no important links to terrorism, and the main U.S. team searching for weapons of mass destruction has packed up and gone home. Meanwhile, true to form, the Bush team lost focus as soon as the TV coverage slackened off. The first result was an orgy of looting — including looting of nuclear waste dumps that, incredibly, we failed to secure. Dirty bombs, anyone?
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