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FIRST TIME AS TRAGEDY, SECOND TIME..., THIRD TIME...? There's a lot of long-form reading out there this week: Seymour Hersh's article on the "redirection" of U.S. policy toward a war on Shiites -- even as we supposedly are on the side of the Shi'a government we installed in Baghdad -- is mind-boggling. As Josh Marshall wrote yesterday, at this point, we actually don't even know whose side we're on in Iraq. Imagine sending more American troops into a situation in which they are told their mission is to support a government that we are simultaneously wishing to be rid of!
When you finish Hersh's article, though, make your way through the lengthy quasi-biography of Donald Rumsfeld by Roger Morris posted last week in two parts on the "TomDispatch" site now sponsored by the Nation Instititute. This is probably the longest piece of online writing I've ever read, but entirely worth it, capturing not just Rumsfeld's particular brand of lunacy, but the political and social milieu that created him, and his sidekick Dick Cheney.
When you finish Hersh's article, though, make your way through the lengthy quasi-biography of Donald Rumsfeld by Roger Morris posted last week in two parts on the "TomDispatch" site now sponsored by the Nation Instititute. This is probably the longest piece of online writing I've ever read, but entirely worth it, capturing not just Rumsfeld's particular brand of lunacy, but the political and social milieu that created him, and his sidekick Dick Cheney.
