Sorry, we missed yesterday.
Roger Cohen in the New York Times says:
So I’m wary of the clamor for retribution. Congress failed. The press failed. The judiciary failed. With almost 3,000 dead, America’s checks and balances got skewed, from the Capitol to Wall Street. Scrutiny gave way to acquiescence. Words were spun in feckless patterns.
Those checks and balances are recovering now. I don’t think this recovery would be served by prosecutions, either of C.I.A. operatives or those who gave them legal advice. Such legal action, if initiated, would split the intelligence services and the military in paralyzing ways at a time when two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, are still being fought. The country would be lacerated.
Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times writes:
Watching people desperately trying to hang on to their little all following a disaster is an experience, as Aristotle would have appreciated, certain to excite pity and terror in the human breast.
If only we didn’t have to spend so much time these days watching bankers and corporate executives do it.
Every day seems to present yet another example of the disjunction between the financial community’s sense of entitlement and the real world occupied by everybody else.
Hube writes:
How’s that “mutual respect” and “new dialogue” going, Mr. President? Hugo Chávez embarrasses you with the book “gift,” Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Evo Morales (Bolivia) rant and rave at you, and even that “new opening” and “outreach” to Cuba has suddenly been slammed in your face.