The media keep up the constant reminders of how bad the Iraq war is going. They incessantly talk about it, even though we’ve heard it over and over again. They constantly bash President Bush (that’s right, he’s the President; remember that) for being a stupid idiot with a horrible administration. It gets nauseating after six years. However, the complaints are petty.
The media have been keeping up a campaign to fire Donald Rumsfeld from being Secretary of Defense for the past three years. They say he’s administering the war wrong (as if they could do a better job) and hasn’t done good enough of a job handling our defense. They say he’s been “running roughshod” over his officers, and for that matter, Mr. Bush has been “running roughshod” over his administration officials. They obviously don’t consider the fact that it’s hard running an administration. When you are an administrator, you have many people who disagree with one another and are lobbying to get their ideas chosen. You have to take initiative to be able to lead an organization like that if you want anything to get done. It’s the same way in any other large organization such as a company or foundation. Bill Clinton had the same problems. The degree that you notice the problems of administering government depends on how much the media want to highlight the faults of an administration. In this case, they definitely want to, and are pursuing that goal incessantly. There have always been problems in government, and there are more of them now that government is so big. But wait, that’s one of the liberal causes.
Yet, more soldiers keep coming back from Iraq who say that most of what is going on there is positive, and the general trend is headed toward progress. The media just focus on the extra-ordinary. They focus on the bad news, so that the Bush administration will look as bad as possible.
On a completely unrelated note, there is a shocking quote in WORLD Magazine this week that really says something about the moral values of this country and the influence of Pelagianism. Here it is:
“He’s a good kid. He just has a problem with stealing cars.”
This was said by a Riviera Beach, Fla., woman on her 15-year-old brother, unidentified by police because of his age, who has been convicted four times for car theft and also for cocaine distribution, marijuana possession, and larceny.
Just a little, tiny, itty bitty problem.
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