Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:30:48 AM
"The days immediately following 9/11 saw a glimmer of seriousness, a glimmer of redemption, but it was not sustained. It was quickly brushed aside and we were told to go forth and shop. Americans would continue to defeat their enemies by living better than their enemies – as we did during the Cold War. But I am sorry to say, real victories aren’t won in this way. Real victories are won by suffering and sacrifice. And this is something we have avoided, something we can no longer avoid. We can no longer sustain the shopping mall regime. We can no longer sustain our permissiveness."
Holding It Together
by J. R. Nyquist
What are we barreling toward?” asks Peggy Noonan in her latest book. “A difficult time, I think,” she says. Has this famous Washington speech-writer become a pessimist? Is she referring to economic hard times? No. She is referring to a future attack on the United States.
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