Lessons of Hubris

I used to think of the New York Times as the "paper of record." But gradually, I have come to see that the Washington Post has better reporting. Today Robin Wright explains how the Iraq occupation has discredited the Bush Doctine of preemptive strikes, unilateralism, war on terror and promoting democracy in the Islamic world. She quotes Geoffrey Kemp of the Nixon Center who says "Of the four principles, three have failed, and the fourth -- democracy promotion -- is hanging by a thread." Read it all here.