Typical of the Times

Take a look at this story in yesterday's New York Times.

Note that the article is really "about" an effective operation against the Taliban -- but it takes some digging to get that from piece itself. Instead, it stresses the civilian deaths (which are, of course, a terrible thing), followed by an American quote about the "successful" operation -- placed, it seems, to play up the callousness aspect: This terrible military man thinks an operation that killed civilians was a "success."

Of course, it doesn't note until lower that those civilian deaths occurred because the Taliban was hiding in civilians' homes.

It's just one more symptom of the disease that Morton Kondracke identified -- a Bush-hatred so overwhelming that everything else, including national security and the best interests of the United States, is subsumed by it.