June 4, 2006

AP misses another golden opportunity

When Senator Kennedy declared his vote against Iraq war his best and said that "U.S. presence in Iraq "inflames the insurgency" the AP reported this response from the RNC:

Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, scoffed at the criticism, saying "Kennedy's pessimism does nothing to keep America safe."

Of course, Kennedy was not being pessimistic, merely realistic.  Too bad the AP reporter passed on this opportunity to ask the RNC spokeswoman to explain how starting a war or clinging to fantasy based optimism about how well it's going helps make America safer.

The war in Iraq has made the world considerably less safe for everyone, at the cost of many thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been far better spent developing alternative energy or fighting the root causes of terrorism (i.e. corporate-government greed and corruption that creates poverty and oppression).

Stray Thoughts from Don Alejandro
who thinks we would be a lot safer today if more senators had shared Kennedy's "pessimism"