[lbo-talk] Bush: what went wrong?

[Carl Remick]

>From: Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
>
> > Doug Henwood
> >
> > At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of
> > the Federal Emergency Management Agency had "absolutely no credentials." 
>...
>
>Putting things in a perspective, the US-ers tend to either believe to be in
>full control of every minutia of everyday life or striving hard to achieve
>such control.  Most of that control is illusory ...
>This is not to say that things could not be improved and better preventive
>measures taken.  But let's keep things in a perspective - there are many
>things we cannot and will not control.

Er, yes, let's keep things in perspective:  With GWB's regime *finally* 
receiving some of the censure it deserves for years of global/domestic 
criminality and incompetence, this is not the time to ponder fortune-cookie 
wisdom about the futility of human ambitions.

Carl

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the 
heaven."

                                                    -- Ecclesiastes 3:1