by Jerry Lanson

Christian Science Monitor

03/24/05

I can't tell whether America is in denial or despair over events in Iraq, but I suspect it's some of each. The denial comes amid a flurry of flag-waving that's followed Iraqi elections and the Bush administration's insistence that peace is breaking out all over because of its own aggressive actions. Conventional wisdom this month is that the president is right. Conventional wisdom has turned an already meek press corps into church mice. But conventional wisdom in this war has been wrong many times before. The despair, I suspect, keeps many people who are bitterly opposed to this war at home -- and deflates turnout at those underpublicized and undercovered antiwar rallies...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0325/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp