5/28/04

As expected Nick Berg's terrible fate has been  used again and again by the hawks to retroactively justify the administration's misadventure in Iraq. "Look!", they cry, "This is why we're there! Only a terrorist is capable of such atrocity.  We must triumph over this barbarism!"  But what of the heart sickening story coming out of Baltimore today? Should we also invade Maryland? On the margins, we are it seems, a badly wounded, badly broken species. Hope really does  sleep sometimes. 

Peace,

John