"...utter failure"

The election is over and we have a new president (BHO). The old lady of US journalism (The New York Times), opined an editorial on the last hours of November 4, 2008 (the election day), and announced to new world that

"... His (Obama's) triumph was decisive and sweeping, because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens. He offered a government that does not try to solve every problem but will do those things beyond the power of individual citizens: to regulate the economy fairly, keep the air clean and the food safe, ensure that the sick have access to health care, and educate children to compete in a globalized world."

The editors of the Times are right. The government failed utterly to protect its citizens. The likes of The Times did all they could to bring this about. Where was the Times when it could through the power of pen, oppose the war on Iraq in 2002-2003? By part directing the great orgy of mass mania in support of an ill-intentioned war, the Times has made itself, for eternity, complicit in the failure of the government to protect its citizens.

This will be true.