Santayana gone backwards

PT passed along this piece, with its striking combination of anger and optimistic passion.

What a strange point in history we have reached, including

• the things the administration did (whatever they were, whether indicted or not),
• the (almost unleaked) investigation by Fitzgerald,
• the 24x7 of anticipatory discussions -- and real-time debates -- in the blogs,
• and on and on.

It seems almost an example of Santayana gone backwards, with the "comedy" of a friviolous, half-baked impeachment of a President returning as the "tragedy" of a war launched for, at best, half-baked reasons.


There's plenty of dishonor to go around, but a passage from the piece jumped out at me and keeps rattling around my head:

The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our
government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much
alive...

As my kids like to say, "Things that make you go hmmm."



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/the-most-important-crimin_b_9183.html