As far as I can tell, no one in the mainstream even blinked on the Iran-Contra angle or the possibility that a vast, secret Middle Eastern operation is being run, possibly illegally and based on stolen funds and Saudi money, out of the Vice President's office.....if Hersh is to be believed -- and as a major journalistic figure for the last near-40 years he certainly deserves to be taken seriously -- the Bush administration seems to be repeating the worst mistakes of the Reagan administration and of the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, which led inexorably to the greatest acts of blowback in our history. Given what we already know about the Bush administration, Americans should be up nights worrying about what all this means now as well as down the line.
I sense a bit of outrage fatigue in the country. The brazenness of the administration's actions have led to us to a place where the latest news item, whether it be Walter Reed, the AG purge (and Gonzales' lying to Congress about the motives of that), misinformation on Iranian involvement in Iraq, etc., gets only a shrug. That is really bad news for the country, however.
Case in point. Your mother always told you that one of the consequences of lying is that folks wouldn't take your word for things once you had proved yourself deceitful. What better way to describe the reaction of even the mainstream media to the confession of Khalid Sheik Muhammad plastered all over today's paper. From the blogs to "the View", people generally assumed that this man had been tortured, that his confession was at best suspect, and at worst completely fabricated. The reality is that this is a "re-confession" and that all of this information had been released before. Whether it is a desperate attempt by the administration to deflect the news cycle away from the last days of Alberto Gonzales or not, the administration has lost the benefit of the doubt for good.
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