today’s editorial in The New York Times finally calls for the withdrawl of U.S. forces from Iraq “without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.”
i had cancelled my subscription to the NY Times many months ago following its support and defense of Israel’s (most recent) invasion of Lebanon after the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah in July 2006. i thought Israel’s response to the kidnapping was excessive and indefensible. the NY Times thought otherwise, so i voted with my wallet and cancelled my subscription. (full disclosure: i still have a subscription to their crosswords. it’s an addiction that i’m not trying to kick).
anyway, after many *years* of enabling the Bush administration’s rampage, the Times finally is advocating pulling the plug. i suppose “better late than never” but it’s hard to think of anything else positive to say about their late-to-the-party opinion.
will i resubscribe? i doubt it. i believe that i’m better informed by reading the news from many different sources online, and i don’t have the guilt about the resources used and pollution created to produce and deliver a paper to my stoop every morning.
