Login | Register

218 online

Most Popular Choices

13

Best Web OpEds 12/24/2008 at 12:19 AM EST

Eugene Robinson: The Price Of Their Security

Quicklink Submitted By Sheila Samples 3 comments

Managing Editor
Sheila Samples

Become a Fan
(49 fans)

Bush and Cheney, understandably shaken by an unprecedented act of terrorism, declared and prosecuted a "war" without specifying who the enemy was. Rather than focus on the architect and sponsor of the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden, they turned away to lash out at others in preemptive blows that dishonored our nation's most precious ideals.

Read the rest of the story HERE:

At www.washingtonpost.com

Rate It | View Ratings

Sheila Samples Social Media Pages:

Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

Related Topic(s): Bush Admin- Chauvinism; Bush Co-Conspirators; Bush Crimes; Bush Failure-in-Chief; Bush Messes To Clean Up; Bush Reasons To Prosecute; Cheney Dick; Eugene Robinson; September 11; Terrorism, Add Tags

Go To Commenting

The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author

Contact Editor

Author Page

View Authors' Articles

OpEdNews ~~depends upon~~ can't survive without your help.

If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership.

STAY IN THE KNOW
If you've enjoyed this, sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter to get lots of great progressive content.

To View Comments or Join the Conversation:

Congress Switchboard: 202-224-3121

To remove advertising from OpEd News, please become a premium member.

"Rob Kall has certainly acquired the firsthand experiences and knowledge gained through interviews to deliver some interesting insights about the "bottom-up" information revolution. Whereas the old 'top-down' systems created stove-pipes and excessive secrecy that blocked information sharing and led to the 'failure to connect the dots' before 9-11, the bottom-up approach should be the main fix. Kall's concept would seem to interface equally well with the founding fathers' idealism in setting forth their democratic theory of governance as with the realism that makes the multi-sourced, bottom-up Wikipedia work. As someone who shares my support of both government and corporate whistleblowing -- which is nothing more than encouraging greater horizontal sharing of information, I commend Rob Kall's important work on this topic."

Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and named one of TIME Magazine's "Persons of the Year" in 2002)

Art Instruction for People
At All Skill Levels

Top Content
in the Last 2 Days
(by Page Views)

The Awful Transformation of Bernie Sanders by earl ofari hutchinson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Hudson River helicopter crash and future crash dangers from fatigue crack failures? by Robert A. Leishear, PhD, PE, ASME Fellow ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Positive Visions of the Future by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Shakespeare was Authored by a Jewish Woman by Kathleen Murphy ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Making It In America Posted by Robert Borosage ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Eating Healthy is Do-able / Eating healthily on the fly (plus thoughts on hypoglycemia) by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Big Question About the UN Security Council's Gaza Ceasefire Resolution by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Budget Cuts Will Hurt Progress on Drug Crisis by Robert Weiner ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

US economy motivated by military conflicts by Adomas Abromaitis ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Vietnam, Truth, and Reconciliation 50 Years Later by David Swanson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The End of Recessions in the United States? by Joel Joseph ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

IMAGINING OUR FUTURE: PERILS AND PROMISE Story 1: The Global Brain Is Waking Up by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Wholly employee owned non-profit corporations. by paul tuten ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The chasm between TB and HIV continues by Citizen News Service - CNS ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

'An existential threat to democracy': the US judge facing a challenge to her election victory Posted by Marta Steele ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Romney Hires Voter Suppression Guru by Lee Fang ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back, Trump's War on the Poor in a New Gilded Age by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Of Course Donald Trump Pardoned a Corporation by Greg Coleridge ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

To Beat China, Russia, India, and Japan in New Space Race, We Need Political Will to Get Back Where We Were 50 Years Ago by Robert Weiner ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Palestine - A Film by Pierre Rohev by Scott Baker ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Carol S. Pearson; Understand the Stories you Live Your Life Through part 2 by Rob Kall ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

End the 1917 Espionage Act by John Hawkins ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet - The New York Times Posted by Marta Steele ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Stamped Out: Baton Rouge's Tameka Brown at National Press Club Highlights How Privatizing USPS Will Harm Rural America by Robert Weiner ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Go To Top 50 Most Popular

Ad info: click here

Classics of Liberal Thinking

Progressive Radio Links