Indeed.
I hope that we can learn from this, and emerge in two years even stronger, but I fear I may be hoping for too much.
The finger-pointing has already begun...
Read the threads on FR. We've been eating our own here for two years, what makes anyone think we will do better in two more years if this keeps up? There is a time to be a purist, but '08 ain't it (and I'm not thinking McCain, I can't abide the man)...