Amid all the retrospectives on the first anniversary, it is worth taking at least a moment, as OpinionJournal.com points out, to remember that despite all the negativism in the media (day to day and in the big picture pieces coming our way today) the Iraqis themselves are positive about the future.
It would be great to compare these results to how the Iraqis felt about their future last year. Oh, wait. That's right. Iraqis weren't free to tell us how they felt about anything last year.
What drives the interest in anniversaries, and how we feel, and how they feel? It would not have occured to me, for example, to think of it.
My idea would be to persevere in setting up what we wanted to set up, no matter how we feel or they feel.
Is there some age where people start giving their feelings a pilot? I am of course thinking that an audience is being played to.
Posted by: Ron Hardin | March 19, 2004 at 06:34 PM