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September 11, 2006
Trib Chooses 9-11 Anniversary To Trash President
First there is this cartoon from Bagley:
Then we have this editorial (an excerpt):
Five years on, 9/11 may be the most potent symbol in America. But a symbol of what, exactly?
Terrorism? Muslim extremism? American heroism?
It stands for all of those things and more. But it also stands as a symbol of confusion. Because five years later, Americans are divided and confused about how to define and how to deal with the threat of Muslim extremism that 9/11 represents.
A good measure of the blame for that should be laid at the feet of President Bush and his administration, people who have done a miserable job of defining and explaining the nature of the threat and plotting a clear path for containing or defeating it. Almost from the beginning, and particularly during the prelude to the misadventure in Iraq, the president's formulations have been overly simplistic or half-truths or flat-out wrong. Invariably, they have been premised on fear.
It goes downhill from there. It's fair to say that the Trib editorial board falls squarely in the 9-10 camp.
Posted by Jonathan at September 11, 2006 8:20 AM
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