Posted here Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 9:49:35 AM 
The increasing subtlty of analysis is good. The question of what kind of scoiety we are moving towards, a choice each day between yellow or red, or getting on with the more interesting aspects of life, love, learning, inventing, creating. Friedman is intersting to track, having ben a supporter of the war to this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/opinion/14friedman.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%
 don't know whether to laugh or cry when I hear the president and vice president slamming John Kerry for saying that he hopes America can eventually get back to a place where "terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance." The idea that President Bush and Mr. Cheney would declare such a statement to be proof that Mr. Kerry is unfit to lead actually says more about them than Mr. Kerry. Excuse me, I don't know about you, but I dream of going back to the days when terrorism was just a nuisance in our lives.
If I have a choice, I prefer not to live the rest of my life with the difference between a good day and bad day being whether Homeland Security tells me it is "code red" or "code orange" outside. To get inside the Washington office of the International Monetary Fund the other day, I had to show my ID, wait for an escort and fill out a one-page form about myself and my visit. I told my host: "Look, I don't want a loan. I just want an interview." Somewhere along the way we've gone over the top and lost our balance
********
|
|
