…about reading other people’s blogs is their ability to not miss certain things that I otherwise would. Atrios is especially good at that, which is why I guess his blog does so well. This is from today:

Both the Afghanistan conflict and the war in Iraq had moments when I knew that the administration was far more concerned about appearing to do something useful than actually doing it.

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In Iraq it was “the schools! the schools!” I’m all for schools, of course, but I assume that schools weren’t part of the vital public infrastructure that we blew up. Slapping on a new coat of paint so we can say “4 trillion schools have been rebuilt!” was, again, nothing more than a PR ploy to insert a line into every NPR report and every Bush speech. I’d rather hear about “the electricity! the electricity!” Oh well.

It’s interesting, but I never thought of that… I’ve assumed that fixing up and reopening schools was one of the good things we’ve done (they’re schools, after all).