The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
They didn't put a damning trail of evidence in writing because they're naive or ignorant; they did it because they have no fear of consequences. None at all. ...
Wow, finally a good op-ed ...
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Ray says:
The initial misstep is painfully clear. Their war plans were drawn up and presented in PowerPoint. Everybody knows that no important decisions should be made based on a PowerPoint presentation. This invasion was doomed before it began. The Iraqis no doubt knew about the PowerPoint slides, were enraged by it, and thus the insurgency was born.
Samantha says:
For your consideration, Ray:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters