Laughing While The Deck Chairs Get Rearranged
It is worth having the world as we know it come crashing around us to be able to read prose like this from Victor Davis Hanson. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTdmZGJkZDViYTFlZTE0NDczZjNiM2E3NjNjODI5ZDY= There are so many wonderful quotes to slowly loll around your brain I couldn’t possible pick them all out. This is one of my favorites:
Without a blink, we went back to 1929 — the only difference being that the baby-boomer generation blames everyone but themselves, under oath and amid clicking cameras, rather than privately and quietly jumping out the window.
But this quote has the steam coming out of my ears:
What is incomprehensible is not just that Gen. David Petraeus turned around an entire theater — Americans from William Tecumseh Sherman to Matthew Ridgway had done just that amid media gloom and doom — but that his efforts when begun were so roundly demonized, and when nearly ending in success so roundly ignored.
If this country were worth saving every end of year magazine would have Gen. Petraeus on the cover and there would be 10,000 Pretraeus for President web sites.
