Kindergarten night at the Republican
National Convention was enlightening.
We learned that American media is bedazzled to the point of dumbstruck
awe by the sheer, strategic brilliance of a high school football rally
and the comforting guidance of a cub scout den mother. Arnold is
Arnold. Laura is a nice woman. The day after American bombs killed
eight villagers in Afghanistan, serving to remind us once again that
the nation that christened the Bush war on terrorism remains in chaos,
the first lady pays tribute to her husband's liberation of girls and
women in that forgotten and forsaken land. Perhaps someone (like Vaclav
Havel) should inform her that there is no freedom in a war zone.
Perhaps the first lady should remind her husband that it is only good
manners to finish what he started. Perhaps they both could use a
history lesson for we have left Afghanistan in the same deplorable
condition that existed before the Taliban took over: In the control of
warlords who have no interest in democracy or the rights of women. [more ]
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