Michael Lotus is optimistic:
My prediction is that we are in for a rough ride, but a happy outcome. The country is making a course correction, reinventing itself. No one else can do this like Americans can, once they decide it has to be done. We are carrying out a once-in-a-century creative destruction of our whole politico-economic structure, and we are going to leave the rest of the world gasping in amazement. These are exciting times, and we are lucky to be here for them.
Hope he’s right.
It wasn’t very impressive the way the left and the media treated the Iraq surge and its despicable to see the same thing happening on the right. I don’t like rooting for failure.
Gerald at the IATT blog tracks AfPak tracks these things. http://warintel.blogspot.com/
Christ, the last thing I want is a revolution. A pox on all the houses of those who want to sweep individual men and women into more damn movements. This kind of stuff reasds so much like an unholy repetition of the early 20th century, the mighty clashing of Juggernauts with Utopia Or Bust! bumper-stickered on their megalithic wheels, crushing and maiming millions of mere mortals as they rumble down that broad highway paved wtih good intentions.
No more movements. Stop it already. What I want is to be left alone. I don’t want to hear any more about what “we” should do, or not do. I don’t want to be considered an anonymous mote in a 300-million member lumbering ant heap “we,” honored only for my ability to be a good little stainless-steel cog wheel. I’ve got kids to raise, college tuition to pay, friends and family to enjoy and nurture, a private life of my own. I’m not interested in messing with anybody else’s moira, and I’d really appreciate it if y’all would stay out of mine.
Is there a place I can sign up to get off the early 21st century’s caravan of bandwagons?
But Carl, then you’d just be part of the ‘I just want to be left alone’ bandwagon. Ya just can’t escape it. I’m not a joiner myself, but I definitely root for the overthrow of the last messianic bandwagon.
Apparently I was way off point. I should read more links instead of just quotes.