Friday, June 11, 2004

Did I say decrease? I meant increase: How can the State Department accidentally report that the rate of terrorist attacks around the globe went down? This is a huge mistake for the Bush administration. State Department officials should have done everything to make sure that there's not even the slightest perception that Bush is cooking the books to make the war on terrorism seem more successful than it is. I honestly didn't put much stock in the numbers when they first came out. It would have been too soon for our war on terrorism to have any dramatic effect. But there is no excuse to make that kind of a mistake about such a sensitive (politically and realistically) issue.