Quote of the Day

"...The moral black hole of the current administration exerts its gravity over my most personal acts.

"I wake to casualty reports. We are feeding our young people into a machine designed to do nothing more than supply energy to the delusions of our government. It was a long time ago, but I remember Vietnam. There was not then and there is not now a military solution. In their terrible arrogance, the Bush administration is about to discover this fact. Mark my words, there will be an ignominious withdrawal from Baghdad that, while the PR will be better managed, will reprise the evacuation of Saigon in 1975. There is an inevitability here that Sophocles would savor--his problem as a writer, though, would be to find a single character with the dignity--which is to say, self knowledge--to qualify as a tragic figure. Our current administration and its war would probably amount to nothing more than a satyr play, a comic interlude demonstrating the results of folly--the confusion of morality when lust and anger overpower reason and compassion." --Joseph Duemer

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