• Doubts Rise as States Detain Sex Offenders After Prison—The first of a three-part series in the New York Times that examines the “growing national movement” to “confine sex offenders beyond their prison terms” and the challenges associated with such.
• Others To Choose From—A fine essay by David Michael Green on the Common Dreams website that reflects on the recent “feud between the Clinton and Obama camps” and what such tells us about these Democratic contenders for the White House.
• Military faces growing ranks of bereaved—A nice piece from the Associated Press that looks at how “the military is struggling with the toughest home-front problem of all: Doing right by the often outspoken and ever-growing ranks of the bereaved.”
• An interview of Seymour Hersh by Bill Maher, in which the journalist discusses his recent piece in The New Yorker detailing the dangerous redirection of policy in the Middle East that could end up “benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism.” (Video clip is courtesy of onegoodmove.org.)
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Ref: David Michael Green’s superb essay:
I may be naive, but I can’t help wondering what W’s father thinks of the awful debacle his son has made of Iraq. I remember how Bush1 was criticized at the close of the Gulf War when he halted the troops short of Baghdad before finishing the job.
Wasn’t his mandate from the UN limited to forcing the Iraquis out of Kuwait? And wasn’t he wisely aware that proceeding into Baghdad and destroying the regime would have led to an instant power vacuum to be filled by Iran?
How the father must now be agonizing over the unholy mess created by the son and his band of neocon handlers.
I believe The New Yorker ran a commentary on Bush senior’s most recent public crying episode and wondered whether his apparent sadness about Jeb’s political career wasn’t displaced sadness about W’s career.