[lbo-talk] Chemical Weapons found

[Kelley]

"One day, I am going to drop everything and think exclusively about America
and its celebrated 'loss of innocence'. I have read that the country lost
said innocence in the Civil War, in the Spanish-American War, in the First
World War, during Prohibition, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at the McCarthy
hearings, in Dallas, in Vietnam, over Watergate and in the discovery
(celluloided by Robert Redford in Quiz Show) that the TV contests in the
Eisenhower era were fixed. This list is not exhaustive. Innocence, we were
recently and quakingly informed, was lost again at the bombing of Oklahoma
City. Clearly, a virginity so casually relinquished is fairly easily
regained - only to be (damn!) mislaid once more."

   --Christopher Hitchens