Stay the Course? What Course?

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Stay the Course? What Course?:

"Fresh from his triumphal visit to Baghdad -- a place so dangerous he had to sneak in without even telling the Iraqi prime minister -- George W. Bush is full of new resolve to stay the course in his open-ended 'global war on terror.' That leaves the rest of us to wonder, in sadness and frustration, just what that course might be and where on earth it can possibly lead.

This is a 'war' in which three men held for years without due process at the Guantanamo Bay prison kill themselves by hanging, and their jailers are so unnerved and self-absorbed that they see the suicides as an attack. Rear Adm. Harry Harris's all-about-me lament -- 'I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us' -- was worthy of delivery from Oprah's couch."