Friday, August 19, 2005

Goodbye Baltimore

Jules Witcover concludes his final column with:

I have continued the column's focus on this unnecessary and calamitous war and will be doing so as the column appears elsewhere. My principal regret in leaving this space in The Sun is that my readers in Baltimore will no longer read my views on what I consider the most critical crisis facing this country for the foreseeable future.


This is certainly true. We're all guilty of seeing this too much through the lense of politics. Certainly politics matters, it's how things actually get done. But sometimes it means losing sight of the reality - that Iraq is indeed "the most critical crisis facing this country for the forseeable future." We need competent people to figure out how to extract ourselves from that mess. If we don't have them, we're fucked.


(via E&P)