From the editorial “The War is Lost” by By William Rivers Pitt as published at truthout.org:
Monday 10 May 2004
We have traveled a long, dark, strange road since the attacks of September 11. We have all suffered, we have all known fear and anger, and sometimes hatred. Many of us have felt – probably more than we are willing to admit it – at one time or another a desire for revenge, so deep was the wound inflicted upon us during that wretched, unforgettable Tuesday morning in September of 2001.
But we have come now to the end of a week so awful, so terrible, so wrenching that the most basic moral fabric of that which we believe is good and great – the basic moral fabric of the United States of America – has been torn bitterly asunder.