The Abyss

From "Afraid To Look in the Moral Abyss" by James Carroll In the Boston Globe, 12/7/04:

"Whole cities are destroyed, populations displaced. The hope of Iraqi elections is mortally compromised. "Coalition" members are dropping out. The mission of American force is to secure the country, but it can't secure itself. The performance of US intelligence has been consistent: Its strategic failures caused the war, and its tactical ignorance of the enemy is losing the war... The war itself is the American war crime. But that is lost in the 'normalcy' of the news."