tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6811719312494990925.post-66766881711602751742007-05-27T14:45:00.000-07:002007-05-27T14:45:00.000-07:00As Bacevich noted, it is difficult to swallow the notion that, after an overwhelming victory in the midterm elections, based, as everyone knows, on strong opposition to the war, and a strong desire that this war be brought to an expeditious conclusion, the Dems are still not willing to shut the thing down. There is something deeply broken in the system. I guess my point in the post below is my usual justification (in the tradition of Emerson) for the "practice" of "discoursing," which is to say, of "writing." Maybe it never works, but our tradition of sent messages, from Melville to Roth, from Thoreau to Bacevich, is a great one, and its very existence does something to keep the atmosphere from going entirely corrupt and (perhaps in a merciful gesture) igniting itself.JLBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10987058554014193721noreply@blogger.com