APRIL
2, 2004 --
Washington
Post media correspondent Howard Kurtz criticized the Air
America debut -- suggesting it was a bit heavy-handed and preached
to the choir. Is this just an exercise to convince us that the
mainmedia are not water carriers for the left?
Previously, that
is to say, in the report of the joint Congressional iInquiry on
the performance of the intelligence community on terrorism before
and after 9/11, Richard Clarke was quoted as saying that the FBI
had been "Clueless" on counter-terrorism. Now, isn't
he saying that had President Bush listened to him, 9/11 would not
have happened?
Maybe the Iraqis
who mutilated the bodies of four Americans in Fallujah should not
have posed gloatingly for the cameras.
Presidential
political campaign critics of the Bush policy on Iraq, including
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Broder,
have refrained from referring to the statement that Secretary
of State Colin Powell gave in the United Nations Security
Council, a month before the 2003 invasion, setting forth
the reasons why the U.S. will, if necessary, use force against
Saddam Hussein. But Mr. Broder was not wrong to say that
the White House caved in to pressure to permit National Security
Advisor Condoleeza Rice to appear under oath before the 9/11
commission (where Democratic Commissioners Gorelick and Ben-Veniste,
among others, are likely to insinuate that President Bush
let 9/11 happen.) Perhaps we will also hear that gas prices
are at such high levels because Saudi Arabia has little respect
for the Bush Administration and that OPEC would not have
raised prices if we acted a bit more multilaterally.
Federalist
No. 62 concludes with the counsel that to be respected, government
must be "truly respectable" and this, in turn,
requires "possessing a certain portion of order and
stability."
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