mumia on iraq, the u.s, and us

The Iraqi Occupation will end, one way or another. The only question is when, and perhaps, how. The American people will look back on this presidential adventure as folly. They may mourn the costs, or even ignore them. They will claim to 'learn' from it,
and then quickly dispatch it into the dark recesses of national memory. Soon, all too soon, it will be history, that most hated and ignored of subjects to Americans. Perhaps a new generation will dust off the dry tomes of the past, and wonder, once again, how
did such a thing come to pass?

Americans, perhaps more than other people, look less to the past, to glean lessons. They are impatient, and forward-thinking, with tomorrow on the radar scope; yesterday all but forgotten.

They are thus ripe for the plucking when politicians unleash the fear card, to launch them once again, into hell.