So, a car plowed through a crowd killing dozens. But the driver picked up all the glass.
The second makes up for the first, and should get higher priority in the article? I think it is both rational and expected that the first gets higher emphasis. And the second is relegated to a footnote. As Powell said "We broke it, we own it". We don't get points for fixing anything we broke, or that broke as part of our actions. As your mother must have told you any number of times "you might not have thrown the ball that broke the lamp, but you were playing with your brother when it happened." It is our obligation at this point to fix what we can. It is our duty. It is who we imagine ourselves to be. It is important to know what the current state of affairs is, to know how we are doing in the job at hand. And I do see those stories in the press about steps forward and back. Truly, I am glad I am not in the same place as you mentally. It must be hard to be as bitter as you sound every day. Ouch. On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Michael Dinowitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, the standard response. We're at fault so we should ignore anything > that > has improved there since we went in. Electricity on? It was our fault it > was > off so why bother reporting it. Water? Same deal. Anything good that can > be > reported from Iraq can be ignored because it can be stacked against "but > its > our fault it was broken". > And in this way we allow the media more and more control over what we see > as > true. It's not truth, it's their opinion. It's their idea of what we > SHOULD > think is true, not what actually is. Rather than just believing what the > media says, why not look at what the 'opposition' says. What is the > government saying? The army? The Iraqi bloggers? The media is the last > place > I go for news now-a-days. If I want a reporters opinion I'll get it after > someone's beaten it out of him. Only way to get truth over opinion when it > comes to those %$%^$%&^. > > > Report the bad because we're responsible for it but don't report the good > because we're responsible for it being bad in the first place. > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > are we talking about better since before or after we shock and awed > > them into the dark ages? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:255133 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
