Thread: Iraq: Parenting Ourselves?

Are we making ourselves feel safe at an outrageous price?

Star-Telegram | 02/18/2007 | Cookie dough in a world gone mad

Very thought provoking article. I was a little concerned by the ending. Shouldn't lessons be learnt from the mistakes that have been made rather than hoping the cookie dough going back in the fridge and the bonding between father and child was an end in itself? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what the writer was trying to convey.

You're right--and that's the point: you can only do so much cookie dough. Then you have to make things right by facing them and moving on.

The US is still putting a happy face on the mess--time to face the facts and move on. Was it Churchill who said the US usually does the right thing--after they're tried everything else?

That article was really inspiring to read, on many levels. Just in another thread some of you guys were posting about use of terminology in respect to law, ie politcal correcting. While law may not be the direct contrast the use of terms and the like do force change on the meaning of the words, or in the case of the article, the ritual.

Thanks for the link.

Thank you for the article, it was very. I'm not sure I agree that going into Iraq was as useless as implied, but It's time to put the cookie dough away and begin leaving of Iraq.