It is gratifying to see that the foreign editor of The New York Times, whose international
\nreporting we long admired, agrees with us.<\/P>
\n
May 3:<\/B> “The mission [in Iraq] is not only not accomplished. It has, with the latest May 6:<\/B> “This is not My Lai. This is not the war in Vietnam. This is different. But the May 9:<\/B> “A military defeat is a damaging thing, and Iraq remains a tense “Abu Ghraib is not My Lai. Nothing like the infamous massacre of Vietnamese civilians took More essential reading:<\/STRONG> This week’s latest from Seymour Hersh in It is gratifying to see that the foreign editor of The New York Times, whose international reporting we long admired, agrees with us. May 3: “The mission [in Iraq] is not only not accomplished. It has, with the latest revelations turned into a moral defeat so shattering that the political and military nightmare (still brewing, […]<\/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-681","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-aZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nrevelations turned into a moral defeat so shattering that the political and military nightmare (still
\nbrewing, with worse to come) may one day seem to have been pre-ordained.” — “Bad to
\nWorse,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> Straight Up<\/EM><\/P>
\n
\nlessons are the same. Will they ever be learned?” — “Donkey Tale,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Straight
\nUp<\/I><\/P>
\n
\nbattleground. But a moral one may be more devastating and more enduring for a power like the
\nUnited States that has long held that its actions are driven, at least in part, by the desire to be a
\nforce for good with a liberating mission for all humanity. …<\/P>
\n
\nplace in the Iraqi prison. But it is assuming something of the mantle of that tragedy — a vivid stain
\non America’s conscience. How the United States can recover the moral authority with which
\nmuch of the world still yearns to vest it will depend on its choices over the next few weeks. The
\nbattle for Iraq now begins again, for the third time, and on tougher terms than ever.” — Roger
\nCohen, “They’ve Apologized. Now
\nWhat?”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Week in Review <\/I><\/P>
\n
\nThe New Yorker, “Chain of
\nCommand,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> and last week’s latest from Cynthia Ozick in The
\nNew York Observer, “The Modern ‘Hep! Hep!
\nHep!'”<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"