by Don Hynes
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| Vantage Point | Culture and Politics by Don Hynes |
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"No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong.
He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so,
the prejudice will be gone." - Tom Paine
February 21, 2005 State of the Union "Moment" Further information on the warm and fuzzy moment at the SOTU speech by the president: The Iraqi woman, identified by Bush as Safia Taleb al-Suhail, is a politician. She was a long-time Iraqi-in-exile and proponent of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, did not live in Iraq at the time of the invasion, and was appointed last year by the US-approved interim government as the Iraqi ambassador to Egypt. I don't have reason to doubt al-Suhail's personal sincerity in that SOTU moment, but nonetheless, her background makes it clear that she is not some average Iraqi whose heart and mind has been won over by the US invasion. *** Bob Herbert's column for the NYT is an important voice in our largely adolescent media culture. His clarity, precision and integrity are at work in this column on the invasion and war in Iraq, two years later. Compare's Herbert's mature perspective to this moronic news story from the same "paper of record" about the Iraq insurgency, in which the author investigates the concept that one and one may be... ??? *** |
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