Letters to the Editor
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The mainstream curse
The problem with Charlie Rose and his likes, centrists Democrats who are basically decent and intelligent human beings, is that they are wired in a hopelessly mainstream way. To them, the US government may make mistakes, but it always means well and can never be infested with evil and deadly people, because Americans and America is good and honorable. Watching Charlie Rose's face while he was listening to the two Iraqis talk about the utter devastation of their society and about the US failure and responsibility for the catastroph was very telling, because he obviously couldn't deal with that very ugly truth and was getting angry. A typical Charlie Rose reply to devastating criticism by one of his guests of the US involvement in iraq is usually:"you can't tell me our intentions aren't honorable".