Below is only PART of an editorial from the Berkshire Eagle. I'd like to ask someone familiar with that paper if this is typical of the paper's editorial stance. (Click the link, this is a terrific piece - very UNLIKE most of the newspaper editorials I've seen lately.)
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101%7E6267%7E1596032,00.htmlA frantically spinning White House
Make sense of this, if you can: The number of U.S. soldiers killed in the occupation of Iraq now exceeds the American death toll in the "liberation" of that unhappy country, the demarcation day of May 1 having been announced by G.I. George while disguised as a fighter pilot. The American administrator says the reconstruction of Iraq cannot be achieved without "several tens of billions of dollars" to rebuild its war-torn infrastructure and shattered economy. And President Bush has a new explanation for why we're there: It's the new battleground for the war on terror. We must press on, he says, until "total victory," confronting the terrorist menace in the desert so that "our people will not have to confront terrorist violence in New York or St. Louis or Los Angeles."
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Plainly, no matter how White House political guru Karl Rove spins it, the administration doesn't know what it is doing. It doesn't understand the Middle Eastern people or their history. It doesn't know how to pay for a war that will be much longer and more bloody than they projected in their arrogance.
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It doesn't know much. That should worry us all.
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