Moral Myopia at Ground Zero
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 20th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Moral Myopia at Ground Zero
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
It's hard to be an Obama sycophant these days. Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York. Your heart swells and you're moved to declare this President Obama's finest hour, his act of greatest courage.Alas, the next day, at a remove of 800 miles, Obama explains that he was only talking about the legality of the thing and not the wisdom — upon which he does not make, and will not make, any judgment.
Our Dysfunctional Politics
David Broder, Washington Post
The Democrats seem determined to teach us the price of vacillation, while the Republicans are bent on instructing us on the rewards of obstruction. What a helluva choice awaits in the November election.This is my sour August reflection on the two months of travel ahead of me on the campaign trail — a search for candidates who may lift the gloom and restore some faith in the principled politics so lacking in Washington these days.
Last U.S. Combat Soldiers Leave Iraq
Ernesto Londoño, Washington Post
Lt. Col. Mark Bieger huddled his infantrymen in a darkened parking lot minutes before they were to depart Baghdad for the last time.”This is a historic mission!” he bellowed, struggling to be heard over the zoom of fighter jets and unmanned drones deployed to watch over the brigade's convoy to Kuwait. “A truly historic end to seven years of war.”The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which left Iraq this week, was the final U.S. combat brigade to be pulled out of the country, fulfilling the Obama administration's pledge to end the U.S. combat mission…
CBO Forecasts Tough Economic Times Ahead
Cowan & Smith, Reuters
