It is appropriate to debate whether current policies are the best ones. It is appropriate to document failures. It is not appropriate to hide or ignore sucesses while repeatedly mentioning failures to paint a false picture of overall failure.
It is not appropriate to declare failure after a few months of searching when years of searching failed at the same task. While the UN inspectors faced obstruction current searchers face the rather more intimidating prospect of hostile fire and a long period available for hiding weapons.
It is not appropriate to repeat meaningless and irrelevant death statistics over and over in a fashion to promote a feeling of failure when in fact those statistic indicate success in historical context.
In short a press is appropriate, a biased one is not.
Regards,
Mark
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What Is And Is Not Appropriate
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- A lot of brainwashing going around.
- Scouring "Government Resources"
- re: Canadians were not fooled by the WMD story, or by your ambassador's threats of economic sanctions
- Oh, for Gods sake, Justin
- What's the difference...
- wow, too negative. . . Kinder/Gentler/Corrected manifesto
- re: wow, too negative. . . Kinder/Gentler/Corrected manifesto
- The exercize of conscience
- What Is And Is Not Appropriate
- re: The exercize of conscience
- The absence of conscience
- If there are changes to America that will improve things...
- Do I understand you correctly?
- No, you don't: there's a principle involved
- You're wrong on this one.
- What You Neglect
- Tyranny is in the eye of the beholder
- No
- Define "harm". I will stipulate to murder and torture.
- No
- Tyranny is in the eye of the beholder
- No, you don't: there's a principle involved
- re: If there are changes to America
- Do I understand you correctly?