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June 17, 2005

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The editorial we didn’t write this week was on Iraq. The subject came up during our informal meeting on editorial topics, but we couldn’t agree on what to say.

The Monitor’s basic position is this: We opposed the war, doubting both the wisdom of it and the evidence used to justify it. But now we hope the occupation succeeds in restoring stability and setting Iraq on the road to a sound constitutional republic. Whether we agreed with going there in the first place, Iraq is our problem now.

Obviously, the Monitor has no reporters in Iraq. Like the rest of the public, we depend on the wire services, the national newspapers, the wire services and television and radio for information. Still, we feel obliged when there is a major story or a shift in circumstances to render an opinion.

But just a skim through the week's news on Iraq conveys a sense of how confusing the situation there has become. Some members of Congress want an exit strategy for U.S. troops, and they aren’t all Democrats. U.S. troops act aggressively to stop the insurgency, but they are still far from making the country safe for Iraqis or for themselves. Suicide bombers hit their targets. Marines die. Innocent people die. Insurgents return to areas that were cleansed of them just weeks ago. On the front page of today’s New York Times is a story about Sunnis and Shiites reaching a compromise on how the Sunnis will be represented in the new parliament. On the front page of the Wall Street Journal is a story about long Sunni-Shiite friendships that have been shattered by the conflict.

We couldn’t figure out what was meaningful from these conflicting reports, so we waited. No editorial this week.

Maybe next week, we will settle on some observation we trust, some observation that we think is constructive. Iraq is a huge test of our country, much as we might like to close our eyes to the whole mess. A local newspaper's job -- on both the news pages and in its editorial columns -- is to work against this natural tendency.

Posted by Mike Pride at June 17, 2005 05:44 PM

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