You have come a long way in your leader on Bush and Blair (”Wielders of Mass Deception?” October 4, 2003), but you are still far from coming clean on your own position on Afghanistan and Iraq. The whole thing is a mess, and it threatens to spill far and wide. How could a mighty newspaper like yours get it so wrong? And what is the proper place of a newspaper, no matter how mighty, in world affairs? Are you about analysis or about policy? More bluntly, are you perchance among the wielders of mass deception? These are the questions one would wish discussed in your own pages. And it is high time, too.