From the linked article: 'In a sermon days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Wright said "America's chickens are coming home to roost" after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan and "supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans." '

Rev. Wright nails the critical cultural change which WW II brought about. The U.S. held war crimes trials of German and Japanese leaders, ostensibly upholding universal values as it charged them with waging aggressive war.

Yet the U.S. refused to recognize the allied bombing of civilians in Dresden, or the nuclear bombing of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as state terror. Now it refuses to recognize its own war of aggression against Iraq, or Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories, as the crimes they are.

Rev. Wright is articulating socially unacceptable truths. Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King's truths were no less unacceptable. He was denounced as a Communist; J. Edgar Hoover put him under surveillance. Today he has a federal holiday named after him.

Whether Rev. Wright is viewed more charitably by posterity has a lot to do with the future of this country. If not, the creeping militarization and the rise of secret government whose origins he has identified will end up nullifying most of human cultural progress since the Renaissance, ushering in a second Dark Age.

My regret is not that Obama attended Rev. Wright's church; it's that Obama has endorsed the sinister policy of targeted assassination, projecting that 30,000 to 50,000 executive-ordered summary executions will be required. Rev. Wright tried to save him, but Obama has already sold his soul.