People watch CNN for 15 min a day and they feel qualified to bid for Condie Rice's job. I have always believed that in our country we have no sense of historicity and a very short span when it comes to social memory.
We are safe (at least we feel that way), we are affluent, idealistic entropic and distant from the world at large, ignorant of very recent historical facts and naive. It makes for a very dangerous cocktail.
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