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Mon, 28 Apr 2003

Instant gratification

(Suggestions that I'm making up for the long silence of recent days will be treated with the appropriate amount of disrespect.)

Matt Yglesias is surprised that we're better at finding Iraqi ex-leaders than we are at finding weapons of mass destruction. Considering that Iraqi soon-to-be-ex-leaders were very easy to find before we marched into Baghdad, is it any shock that hasty cover-ups are easier to uncover than secrets carefully prepared for a decade?

I remember growing up hearing that Americans had attention spans that were too short. I often wondered how anyone could say that after watching a baseball game, but I think I'm seeing it now. Only in America could a three-week war be declared a quagmire in its second week, and only in America could three more weeks be considered enough time to search a desert nation the size of California for carefully hidden items.

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