Curves Ahead

Two of the few honest columnists have, in their latest offerings, weighed in with strikingly dire predictions of the consequences of the Bush Administration's exploitation of September 11.

Robert Fisk concluses his thusly: "We have done all this in the name of the dead of 11 September. Not since the Second World War have we seen folly on this scale. And it has scarcely begun."

And Paul Krugman his: "In other words, if you thought the last two years were bad, just wait: it's about to get worse. A lot worse."

Both well worth reading, of course. (As is Krugman's Buzzflash interview.) But more importantly, they should serve as reminders (not that any were really needed) that it's nothing like time to relax.

Posted by Eddie Tews at September 12, 2003 01:57 PM