According to the Bush administration, the horrible attacks in Baghdad actually demonstrate that the bad guys are frantic because they're losing! "The more progress we make, the more desperate they become," says Condi Rice.
This quote from an A.P. article on the fires in Southern California leapt out at me today.
"'It would be disingenuous to say we have control of these fires. Right now we are throwing everything we can at them,' Dallas Jones, director of the state Office of Emergency Services, said of the major blazes burning in San Diego, Simi Valley and San Bernardino County."
Isn't that kind of blunt honesty painful, yet refreshing? No chirpy fake optimism here. Not for these guys some dumb assertion like, "Since a lot of houses have burned up already, the fire should soon run out of things to burn!" No "We'd rather be fighting this fire here in Rancho Cucamunga than in downtown Los Angeles!" (Or "These flames are burning everything in their path because they hate private property!" The mind boggles...)
