Op-Ed Columnist - The Banality of Bush White House Evil - NYTimes.com
WE don’t like our evil to be banal. Ten years after Columbine, it only now may be sinking in that the psychopathic killers were not jock-hating dorks from a “Trench Coat Mafia,” or, as ABC News maintained at the time, “part of a dark, underground national phenomenon known as the Gothic movement.” In the new best seller “Columbine,” the journalist Dave Cullen reaffirms that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were instead ordinary American teenagers ... Full Story »
Posted by Kelly Garrett
I find the arguments *against* fact-finding panels, such as the one advocated here, compelling. I fear that they could produce more finger pointing than facts, or (perhap more likely) that even if done well, the facts will be hard to make out amidst the partisan clamor. Those who opposed the Bush administration and the war in Iraq will presumably find evidence for their cause, while those who supported the prior administration will see only Liberal mud slinging. Nevertheless, I believe this review merits careful consideration.