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...term conflict with the forces of radical Islam into a Global War on Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally an impeccable debater, seemed boggled by this simple question from the audience: "How do we know if we're winning or losing...
...term conflict with the forces of radical Islam into a Global War on Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally an impeccable debater, seemed boggled by this simple question from the audience: "How do we know if we're winning or losing...
DIED. Molly Ivins, 62, acerbic commentator, whose columns skewered the high and mighty; after a seven-year fight with breast cancer; in Austin, Texas. Ivins, who famously referred to George W. Bush as "Shrub," could write with heartfelt earnestness yet just as naturally refer to height-challenged politicians as "runts with attitudes." The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in a recent column on Bush's troop surge, offered what could serve as her epitaph: "Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous...
...Having breast cancer, she wrote in a TIME column on Feb, 18, 2002, "is massive amounts of no fun. First, they multilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that...
...with her books about Bush and her columns, including her final column about her opposition to the war, she is lauded as a great liberal. That's the way things are now, labels must apply. But Molly captured the joy of politics for all of us. One story she told last fall when Ann Richards died is a glimpse of what...