MODOPIA

If only the war had been fought in Ethiopia. If only, instead of oil, Iraq held vast reserves of Fruitopia! Then Maureen Dowd's year would have been perfect ...

Dowd, April '04: " ... the 9/11 commission's staff, which faults the [CIA] for management miasma and Al Qaeda myopia ... "

Dowd, May '04: "When a beaming Mr. Wolfowitz stopped at my table to greet an admiring Republican, I wanted to snap, 'Get back to your desk, Mr. Myopia from Utopia!'"

Dowd, August '04: "I would sum it up by saying that the neocons wanted a utopia in Iraq. But because of their myopia, we've ended up with a dystopia in the Middle East."

Dowd, September '04: "Faced with their dystopia, the utopians are scaling back their grand visions for Iraq's glorious future."

Dowd, December '04: "His disgraceful admission that his condolence letters to the families of soldiers killed in Iraq were signed by machine ... is redolent of the myopia that has led to the dystopia."

I bet a machine is writing Dowd's columns. No human would persist with this myopia/dystopia/utopia line.