Maureen Dowd redeemed herself today, with "Wolfie's Fuzzy Math" following close on the heels of "Bushworld". She made up for a lot of superficial, mean-spirited columns with today's offering:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/opinion/02DOWD.html
An excerpt:
This is, of course, an administration that refuses to quantify or acknowledge the cost of its chuckleheaded empire policies, in bodies, money, credibility in the Arab world, reputation among our allies or the reinvigoration of militant Muslims around the globe. Duped themselves, they duped Americans into thinking it would be easy, paid for with Iraqi oil. But Donald Rumsfeld's vision of showing off a slim, agile military was always at odds with the neocons' vision of infusing enough security into Iraq to turn it into an instant democratic paradise.
Crushed in the collision of these two grandiose dreams are all the smaller dreams of fallen soldiers, to raise kids and watch baseball and grill hot dogs on the Fourth of July.
But read the whole thing; it should not be missed.