Dan - its interesting that you are now referring to articles that state ....

Given the mendacity and shocking incompetence of the Bush administration — especially its mishandling of the war in Iraq...

Welcome to outside-the-bubble world. After reading the article, i'm a bit confused. The author states....

And yet, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, liberals continue to imagine that Muslim terrorism springs from economic despair, lack of education and American militarism.

But just today Bush linked radicalism with hopelessness and illiteracy...

"Laura believes strongly in the power of literacy to change societies. And that's really what we're here to talk about. The capacity of -- the simple act of teaching a child to read, or an adult to read has the capacity to transform nations and yield the peace we all want." the president said at the White House Conference on Global Literacy being hosted in New York by the first lady."

"After all, a literacy initiative will help spread prosperity and peace. One reason radicals are able to recruit young men, for example, to become suicide bombers, is because of hopelessness. One way to defeat hopelessness is through literacy, is to giving people the fantastic hope that comes by being able to read and realize dreams. Reading will yield the peace we want."

So if more people can read (which will "spread prosperity and peace"), we'll either have less "suiciders" if you listen to Bush, or we'll just have more-literate suiciders according to the author. The author takes a swipe at "liberals" who he paints as having a position that turns out to be the position that Bush embraces. Funny stuff.

This is a beauty...

This may seem like frank acquiescence to the charge that "liberals are soft on terrorism." It is, and they are.

Oh, to be the self-annointed spokeman for "liberals" (which i guess now means "Bush critic"). What a joke. The whole article sounds like the "vote Republican or speak Farsi" Cheney drivel.


>Head-in-the-Sand Liberals
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>...my correspondence with liberals has convinced me that liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world — specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith...
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>...Unfortunately, liberals hate the current administration with such fury that they regularly fail to acknowledge just how dangerous and depraved our enemies in the Muslim world are.
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>Read. Discuss. Wake up.