Friday, May 28, 2004
Inauspicious news for a Memorial Day weekend
So let me get this straight: we give Najaf and Kufa back to al-Sadr, rescind the arrest warrant, let his Mahdi Army continue to organize, and we still try to spin it as a victory? That story from the shouted front-page of the NYTimes is already trumped by another story of attacks on the military in Kufa. Wow. This war is getting out of control.
The Often Essential Krug is Entirely Essential today. He throws a ton of bricks at Bush, the Press, and his own paper today. Only the most important liberal columnist in the country can get away with that.
Everyone's looking for nice things to say about the WWII Memorial. Personally, I think it's pathetic. Huge, wasteful space torn from the National Mall. Unimportant, illogical pillars for States (what vet every defined his service by the State he came from - that seems to have ended after the Civil War). As usual, architecture by committee ends up being a muted disaster.
So let me get this straight: we give Najaf and Kufa back to al-Sadr, rescind the arrest warrant, let his Mahdi Army continue to organize, and we still try to spin it as a victory? That story from the shouted front-page of the NYTimes is already trumped by another story of attacks on the military in Kufa. Wow. This war is getting out of control.
The Often Essential Krug is Entirely Essential today. He throws a ton of bricks at Bush, the Press, and his own paper today. Only the most important liberal columnist in the country can get away with that.
Everyone's looking for nice things to say about the WWII Memorial. Personally, I think it's pathetic. Huge, wasteful space torn from the National Mall. Unimportant, illogical pillars for States (what vet every defined his service by the State he came from - that seems to have ended after the Civil War). As usual, architecture by committee ends up being a muted disaster.
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