> official posture was always ambiguous and cautious. If Hartung is
> right, and this is the victory of a formerly marginal strand of
> right-wing thinking going back at least 20 years, then the lunatics
> have taken over. Even Nixon looked saner than this.
It took five decades for the US to go from the Pax Americana to Bananamerica. It took five years to go from Bananamerica to the Emirate of Enronistan.
I await the next five months with glee.
-- Dennis