One of the finest online essayists, David Warren is back from vacation with a troubling but perceptive essay: One-A-Day.
He notes the mounting media campaign to reverse the gains in Iraq and to convince the American people to go back to sleep. The question at the end is:
The question on my mind is thus, will the Americans funk out? And the only thing I can say for sure, is that if they do, it will be an unparalleled disaster. For 9/11 itself was the payback for the last U.S. funk-out from its responsibilities as a superpower.
He's correct.
Posted by Van der Leun at August 28, 2003 12:19 PM | TrackBack
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