Winds of change

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

The two paragraphs below which open a long opinion piece would be
unremarkable from the NY Times Op Ed page.

> Though America has condemned the cruelties of Abu Ghraib, they remain
> nonetheless a symbol of the inescapable fact that the war has been run
> incompetently, with an apparently deliberate contempt for history,
> strategy, and thought, and with too little regard for the American
> soldier, whose mounting casualties seem to have no effect on the
> boastfulness of the civilian leadership.
>
> Before the war's inception, and even after September 11, the Bush
> administration, having promised to correct its predecessor's
> depredations of the military, failed to do so. The president failed to
> go to Congress on September 12 to ask for a declaration of war, failed
> to ask Congress when he did go before it for the tools with which to
> fight, and has failed consistently to ask the American people for
> sacrifice. And yet their sons, mainly, are sacrificed in Iraq day by day.


But they are not from the NYT or a liberal source.

They were written by a regular on the Wall Street Journal editorial
page, novelist MARK HELPRIN and appeared today, May 17, 2004; Page A20.