Twenty Days to Go

Does anyone else have a sense that what's happening between Israel and Hamas right now is happening because a) officials in the Bush Administration checked out a long time ago, and b) people on both sides have wanted to take advantage of that fact?

Bob Herbert takes a stab at Adding Up the Damage of the Bush Administration, but there's just not enough column space to do it. And Nicholas Kristoff finds a chilling reminder of that in the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Cambodia.