[Utah Girl]

Hmmmm.

[RandallFlagg]

Who's Clarke and what "Book?"



I'm being a smartarse

[zarf]

When he apologizes for his and the government's ``failure'' (he means its failure to listen to him, and his failure to make it listen), the implied principle is freighted with future acrimony. The principle is that when government efforts to protect public safety are proved to be imperfect, we should be able to identify measures that could have and -- this is not the same thing -- should have been taken.

A very important and critical point made by Will.

Clarkes "apology" was a dangerous precedent. When an enemy connives to attack our people and our land the government owes nothing to the American people except a righteous wrath towards those that committed the act; and a steely determination to destroy those them.

Could one imagine FDR apologizing for Pearl or Churchill apologizing for the Blitz?

Clarkes "apology" was the act of a political hack.

[lepton]

Bookmark bump

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - CLARKE

[NYCVirago]

Harriet Beecher Stowe's ``Uncle Tom's Cabin,'' published in 1852, quickly sold 300,000 copies -- equivalent to 3 million today -- and remains the only book to become an American history-shaping political event.

Certainly "Uncle Tom's Cabin" shaped American history, but other books have, too. What about "The Jungle" cleaning up the meatpacking industry, "Silent Spring" leading to the banning of DDT, and "The Feminine Mystique" starting the modern feminist movement?

[KillTime]

"meretriciousness" = Pretentious. Had to look that one up. Was george will trying to make a point by using a word that is itself meretricious in its use?