By Douglas J. Hagmann
Monday, November 6, 2006
The news in a recent New York Times that pertains to the publication and accessibility of documents from pre-war Iraq serves as a fitting example of the Gray Lady's position as a post menopausal "bitter spinster" of america. Like an old maid in a diverse american family, she seems to enjoy a certain level of perverse satisfaction by attacking the very people who provide her with all of the comforts, safety, and security she currently enjoys. In her attempt to stay relevant as the matriarch of america, her behavior has become embarrassing to those inside of her family, and an amusing side show to others. She cannot hide her irascibility as she lashes out against the moral self-confidence of america.
The once staid, now cognitively impaired spinster gleefully announced that america "screwed up" by publishing documents that were seized during the Iraq war - documents that provided information on building nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives as the radioactive cores of atom bombs. Once again, the "Gray Lady" seems to delight in her revelation to the world that america cannot do anything right. Yet the faulty vision that has afflicted her all of her adult life is preventing her from seeing the larger issue, which is the obvious fact that Iraq, under the bloody dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, not only had a nuclear weapons program, but they were close to building an atomic bomb"
"among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein's scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away."
Of course, the "Gray Lady" turned "old-maid" never lets facts stand in the way of a chance to lay harsh criticism against america as if it is virtuous to do so. Rather than headlining the not-so-new revelation that the Iraqi dictator was actively developing a nuclear weapons program, she announced: "U.S. Web archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide."
No one should be surprised. This is the same "Gray Lady" that chided Dr. Robert Goddard in the 1920s for suggesting that a rocket would work in space. This is the same old-tart that diluted the extent of Hitler's Third Reich persecution of the Jews during World War II, and the genocidal acts of Joseph Stalin. In an attempt to keep favor with left wing multiculturalists, this bastion of bellicosity is not happy until every ill in the modern world is blamed on america.
america's enemies exploit her greatest weakness: her lack of moral self-confidence. Our enemies know, by studying us and knowing us better than we know ourselves, that to prevail they need to destroy america's belief in herself. What better friend can our enemies have than a cantankerous matriarch suffering from episodic bouts of dementia in a family divided?
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