Spring Flings

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, April 13, and scoffed at the idea that the U.S. had any responsibility at all regarding the destruction of Baghdad's National Museum. He even guffawed at one point. I guess we shouldn't be surprised by this attitude, since Rumsfeld and his boss, President George W. Bush, are Republicans, and that party has gone to great lengths during the past twenty years to prove how very little they care for American art. Just imagine then, how much regard they have for Iraqi art. But the Bush gang does value some things, as made clear by this telling example: Coalition troops did protect Iraq's Oil Ministry building.