Especially lucid column from the typically sensible Molly Ivins about Aghanistan. Why is it so hard for everyone else to make so much sense? Excerpts:

"In the first place, there's not much there to hit, and in the second place, we are up against the dismal fact that the bombing campaign could well cause the starvation of literally millions of Afghans who never did anything to us."

"The Northern Alliance is not the good guys; they're just a different set of bad guys."

No, bloodlusting right, that's not communist or pacifist, that's just common sense.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/story/1135792p-1203440c.html