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foot bridge and waterfall

This Is Just to Say
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Chart of Iraq War Mismanagement

The damage assessments out of Iraq and Afghanistan are devastating. So is a military officer’s recent analysis of the way the Administration’s handled one of the most critical strategic elements of the so-called “War on Terror”: the battle to persuade the Iraqi and Afghan people that their future lies in building an enlightened, non-fundamentalist society.

Not only is the new Iraqi government anti-Israeli and pro-Iranian, but the US-backed Afghan government has reinstated the infamous “Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue,” the agency that intimidated women under the Taliban. Fundamentalism is back in black.