When I first read CIA director Porter Goss’s recent Congressional testimony that “Islamic <\/P> Herbert writes: “So tell me again. What was this war about? In terms of the fight against <\/P> It may be that most Americans would prefer not to know about these practices, which are <\/P> If you don’t believe that, think of what the Germans who came after the Holocaust have I’m willing to bet the majority of Americans by far still have not come to grips with America’s When I first read CIA director Porter Goss’s recent Congressional testimony that “Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists” and “these jihadists who survive will leave Iraq experienced and focus on acts of urban terrorism,” I intended to post an item about Dear Leader’s Big Lie that the invasion of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nextremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new anti-U.S. jihadists” and “these jihadists
\nwho survive will leave Iraq experienced and focus on acts of urban terrorism,” I intended to post
\nan item about Dear Leader’s Big Lie that the invasion of Iraq would quell terrorism. But I never
\ngot around to it. And now I don’t have to, because Bob Herbert has done it for me in his column
\nthis morning, “Iraq, Then And Now.”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> <\/P>
\n
\n
\nterror,the war in Iraq has been a big loss. We’ve energized the enemy.” And as anyone with sense
\nwould be, he’s dismayed by the sheer hypocrisy of Dear Leader’s regime:<\/P>
\n
\n[T]he administration has taken every opportunity since since Sept. 11, 2001,
\nto utilize the lofty language of freedom, democracy and the rule of law while secretly pursuing
\npolicies that are both unjust and profoundly inhumane. …
\n
\n
\nnothing less than malignant cells that are already spreading in the nation’s soul. Denial is often the
\nfirst response to the most painful realities.”<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nexperienced with collective guilt. Germany’s first response was denial. Among some Germans it
\nstill is. But among many more it is not. Now think of us Americans, who have yet to accept the
\nidea of collective guilt for black slavery and the decimation of Native American peoples.<\/P>
\n
\nown genocidal history. Even the horrific atrocities of Vietnam have receded in memory, as if they
\nare part of someone else’s remote past — to the point where this nation has allowed itself to be
\nmisled into a war in which new crimes against humanity again bear witness against its ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"