hell’s handmaiden

Welcome to the January 1, 2008 edition of this is not my country, but with elections coming I am hopeful, marginally, that I may be able to reclaim some of that pie in the sky affection I had for the country in my youth. It isn’t that I’ve lost my love of the principles in the Declaration and the government of the Constitution. If fact, if anything, that is my problem. I suppose a case can be made that we, as a nation, have been drifting away from those principles since the whole experiment began, but with 9/11 we ran like hell, trading principle for an illusion of safety.