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...persistent denials that the war in Iraq was a mistake and the claims that it was justified by intelligence are beginning to hurt us all. Are today's leaders so blind as to deny their failures? Isn't this stubbornness the result of a belief that admitting one's errors is abhorrent? It's a pity that the people in charge would nonchalantly throw away their potential to do good because of false pride. Maturity is required in leadership, but officials today think humility can lead to a loss of dignity. Ernesto Kelly Magtoto Las Pinas City, the Philippines...
Which led me to think of our own dear President, W., and his position. And how he would die in that hotseat, sweating under the collar, loosening his red tie, small flag pin on the lapel of his jacket perfectly cocked, blind patriotism leaving him unaccountable. Humanity isn’t the issue for the fellow who referred to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as “the bad guys,” takes some kind of pleasure in the death penalty (which he affectionately calls watching a man fry). He doesn’t, of course, appear...
...hear top Bush Administration officials argue that there was really no way the U.S. government could have foreseen, much less prevented, the deadly attacks on Washington and New York City. Osama bin Laden's plot was too diabolical, they said, too well executed and too perfectly aimed at the blind spots of our homeland defense for anyone to have imagined or foiled it. "We were surprised by what happened here," said Vice President Dick Cheney five days afterward...
Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...
Turning a blind eye to the rest of the world, I set out to the neighborhoods I had known before and those I had never explored. Shopping in SoHo, dinner in Union Square, bowling in Chelsea, preppy bars on the Upper East. All were fun. I found the same good food, the same quirky side streets and discovered the teeming city nightlife I’d glimpsed as a high schooler...