Monday, May 17, 2004

Helprin Nails It

When he says in Written on Water: that

"Leaving out entirely our gratuitously self-inflicted inability to deal with major contingencies in Asia, this has been the briefest summary of mismanagement, a full exposition of which could fill a thick and very unpleasant book. But to these failings the left offers no better alternative, for if the right has failed in execution, the left's failure, in conception, is deeper."


This may be the most accurate perspective of the current mess, although neither side can take any comfort in his criticism.

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