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March 01, 2006
Long live the blogosphere
Having been in a perfect storm lately of work and personal distractions, for about a week I've found myself in a 1990's-style MSM cocoon, relying on free daily newspapers, occasionally seeing late local news etc. Based on those sources, I had the feeling Iraq is degenerating, and fast, toward civil war, and that President Bush's approval ratings were heading toward the freezing mark. Thankfully this isn't the 1990's, though, and while I've never been thrilled with Bush's problems in Iraq, I went to Realclearpolitics.com to see what the chattering class was chattering about. And would you look at that! Sure, some people believe Iraq is a disaster, but maybe the "accepted fact" "headed to civil war" storyboard is just a touch overstated, even "hysterical." And maybe not all hope is lost.
There are other stories in this "is this a war or isn't it a war" war, too. Like the developments in the investigation of Joel Hinrichs, the would-be Sooner bomber, which gets weirder and weirder. And the anti-Islamism manifesto, which suggests more people are acknowledging we do have enemies, and many of them are Islamic.
Posted by bill at March 1, 2006 04:52 PM
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