A friend writes:
A quotation from Chas Freeman (Justin Raimondo today)–the voice the president decided he couldn't afford to have on hand:
"Both parties colluded in catastrophically misguided policies of militarism and jingoistic xenophobia. We succumbed to panic and unreasoning dread. We got carried away with our military prowess. Our press embedded itself with the troops and jumped into bed with our government. We invaded countries that existed only in our imaginations and then were shocked by their failure to conform to our preconceptions. We asked our military to do things soldiers can do only poorly, if at all. Our representatives pawned our essential freedoms to our commander in chief in exchange for implied promises that he would reduce the risks to our security by means that he later declined to disclose or explain."
Does Obama remember that this is the way he used to think (sometimes almost the way he used to talk)? CAN he remember this, through the layers of wadding put in by Rahm and other members of the permanent establishment who he has decided must screen every scintilla of information before it arrives at his desk?
