A good piece from the New Yorker , hat tip to TPM Josh

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town

Bush and Cheney—even with their approval ratings at historic lows and with Iraq veering toward open civil war—and their staffs still apparently find it impossible to admit error. In the week marking the third anniversary of the invasion, the Bush Administration delivered a portfolio of speeches and op-ed essays that seem even more arid and isolated than usual. (The President kept repeating his claim that he had a “strategy for victory,” but he sounded as if he were reading texts from 2004 that his staff had forgotten to clear from his desk.) At the same time, the White House reissued a national-security strategy doctrine that blandly reaffirmed Bush’s intent to “act pre-emptively,” should he see the need, as if there were not a reason in the world to reconsider his assumptions.

Josh’s closing comment after linking to the article:

Even though public opinion has turned fairly decisively against the war, our whole public life today — not just related to this war, but centered on it — is awash in a sea of disinformation, official lies and denial. Indeed, lies and bad-faith obfuscation still set the terms of the public debate. We’ve barely scraped the surface in understanding how we got into this war — largely because there’s been no serious or independent investigation. And the dominant voices in the media are still willing to indulge the voices of liars on a par with those who are at least trying to grapple with what’s happening.

Truly a struggling, deceptive crew seeing their house of cards crumbling, but they keep cranking out the propaganda to the ones who lap it up, blinded by their hopes of who knows what. But whatever it is, it bears little resemblance in either means or ends to the reality of the Kingdom of God. There’s far too much looking to politics and church as usual that keep us from recognizing the alternate life which God wants us to know in community with the People of God