Time for a Pragmatic Approach

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted January 25, 2006.

We have made a horrible mess of this 'war on terrorism' -- now how do we fix it?

We live in interesting times, we do, we do. We can read in our daily newspapers that our government is about to launch a three-day propaganda blitz to convince us all that its secret program to spy on us is something we really want and need.

"A campaign of high-profile national security events," reports The New York Times, follows "Karl Rove's blistering speech to national Republicans" about what a swell political issue this is for their party.