HERBERT: "Bush's Echo Chamber" (GOOD read!)

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As I watch the disastrous consequences of the Bush policies unfold - not just in Iraq, but here at home as well - I am struck by the immaturity of this administration, whatever the ages of the officials involved. It's as if the children have taken over and sent the adults packing. The counsel of wiser heads, like George H. W. Bush, or Brent Scowcroft, or Colin Powell, is not needed and not wanted.

Some of the world's most important decisions - often, decisions of life and death - have been left to those who are less competent and less experienced, to men and women who are deficient in such qualities as risk perception and comprehension of future consequences, who are reckless and dangerously susceptible to magical thinking and the ideological pressure of their peers.

I look at the catastrophe in Iraq, the fiscal debacle here at home, the extent to which loyalty trumps competence at the highest levels of government, the absence of a coherent vision of the future for the U.S. and the world, and I wonder, with a sense of deep sadness, where the adults have gone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/opinion/19herbert.html

send a DISTRESS message!

Very good read!

"History will show that the Bush crowd of incompetents brought tremendous amounts of suffering to enormous numbers of people. The amount of blood being shed is sickening, and there is no end to the grief in sight."

May the people who enabled this disaster hang their heads in shame.

unfortunately, they're too busy wagging their fingers at gays and celebrating their 'victory'

we'll see what happens when their children are DEAD, when their jobs are GONE, when their health coverage is GONE...

for now, they are *above* shame....

When will Mr. Herbert received his much-deserved Pulitzer for Distinguished Commentary (or whatever the title is).

He's always right on the money.