The Theory Of Evolution

Recently, objective journalist Seymour Hersh explained to a Canadian audience how George Bush could possibly win reelection.

"There are 70 million Americans who don't believe in evolution. Bush is playing to that core," Hersh said. "And can you imagine what the rest of the world is going to think if we re-elect this man?"

Well, it's true, many of us don't believe in evolution - at not the sort of evolution promoted by the New York Times.

In 2002, John Kerry applauded the Bush administration's strategy of enlisting Afghan allies to fight the Taliban. ``What we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will'' -- i.e., not throwing American lives away in tunnels and caves in alien territory. ``I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way.''

Now, as always, the retroactive military genius says he would have done it differently. Yet in the same interview, asked about how things were going overall in Afghanistan, he said ``I think we have been smart, I think the administration leadership has done it well and we are on the right track.''

Today, when demogoguery serves his purpose better than statesmanship, he calls using allies "outsourcing."

John Kerry has managed to transform our [successful] Afghan venture into a failure -- a botched operation in which Bush let Osama bin Laden get away because he ``outsourced'' bin Laden's capture to ``warlords'' in the battle of Tora Bora.

How does the New York Times characterize this opportunistic flip flopping? Evolution, of course.