JDG wrote: > Sorry, but does anyone remember the red scare, McCarthyism, the > missile gap, air raid drills in schools, backyard nuclear shelters, > the Sputnik gap, "We Will Bury You", the domino theory, managed > decline, etc.?????
Yet throughout that period human rights advanced, transparency improved and the power of the executive declined. > And I might point out that while some Muslim clerics may have been > unfairly denied boarding onto a flight yesterday, we haven't exactly > evicted all Muslims from their homes and sent them to concentration > camps either. Yes, but it is *our* generation that is "driven > almost insane." It is our generation that has sanctioned torture, a practice we would have attributed to insanity in the past. I for one am deeply ashamed. Doug _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
