BAD NEWS: I just learned (from Eric Alterman's article in the Guardian's Weekend Magazine) that America has been taken over by a tiny cabal of right wing fanatics who control the government and through it the entire populace. Even though the President is an idiot who gets consistently dismal numbers in European public opinion polls, he has had remarkable success pushing through their depraved agenda of environmental devastation, pointless war-mongering, erosion of public safety, suppression of free speech, and economic ruin. Even worse, it appears they will also get their way on a costly plan to destroy us all with a missile defense system. Disturbingly, despite the fact that the 9/11 attacks ought to have turned Americans against "atrocities committed in the name of God," there is even now an "American Taliban" of conservative Christians who refuse to release their death grip on the government. Scary stuff. Sounds like I got out of there just in time.
WORSE NEWS: we have lost the war, it turns out, to my surprise. Damn, I was pretty sure we were going to win this one. Well, we'll get 'em next year...
(Link to Ted Rall's "How We Lost Afghanistan" via just about everyone; most effectively trashed by James Lileks; best caption by Ken Layne: "'We've never been to the moon, the Earth is flat, and the holocaust never happened' by Ted Rall.")
Posted by Dr. Frank at December 17, 2001 10:08 AM | TrackBack