All Intensive Purposes

"Niall Ferguson . . . frets that 'too few American liberals seem to grasp how high the price will be' if the Bush administration's policy in Iraq fails. Actually, we do. That is why we thought the policy wrongheaded in the first place. It is the Bush administration, cynically or otherwise, that chooses not to understand."

-- Harry Vonk, of Carlsbad, Cal., writing to the Editor of The New York Times.