A few weeks ago, while - like many others, I was enthralled, appalled, and otherwise apoplectic concerning the capitulations of Congress on the FISA issue, enraged and perplexed by the appearance in the NY Times Op-Ed page of the Pollack/O’Hanlon piece, obviously named by the Minister of Propaganda, A War We Just Might Win, and the confounding rhetoric of Democrats joining in the mantra of "the surge is working", while following the stories of death and destruction, including the single most deadly attack by factions of the insurgency; Aug. 15, 2007: a coordinated suicide attack on Tuesday, in the town of Qahataniya, 120 kilometers (75 miles) west of Mosul, Iraq; and the collapsed infra-structure of the political, physical, and theoretical reality of Iraq - I came upon an article about how the poet, Charles Simic, had been named U. S. Poet Laureate.
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