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• Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:11 AM

  All Enemies, Foreign and DOMESTIC

  "The current challenge is not a struggle against a totalitarian foe."

  Actually, it is, Sid.

  Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans (though not all, as evidenced by David Beckley's appropriately caustic response) lacks the courage to grasp the concept of domestic foes.

  Voters are going to be bitterly disappointed - and, perhaps, by some strange cosmic convergence, very angry - when they experience the inevitably weak, inherently corrupt governance of the exact same politicians who turned their backs on the American people during eight long years of the lawless, dictatorial Bush-Cheney Administration.

  Are you ever going to address your party's culpability for the lawlessness which has infected all branches of the Federal Government? Until you and other fat cats in the Democratic Party decide to level with the American People about not only the Republicans' failings, but the Democrats' failings, as well, you and they will rightly come to be viewed as vultures whose sole reason for existence is to pick the bones and pockets of the American public. Or maybe I'm just being uncharacteristically optimistic.

  Your editorial reminds me of the mother who administers a daily beating to her kids and dresses them in pretty clothes so the neighbors won't catch on. If the political elite in this country - and the people they ostensibly represent - were half as concerned about our CONDUCT as our reputation, we wouldn't be having this unpleasant conversation.

  I wish I could say the American People deserve better. Perhaps, one day, we will.

  Just desserts or not, conscientious, fun-lovin' citizens aren't going to tolerate the lies, looting, torture, murder, death and all the other products of entrenched corporate governance indefinitely.

  A lawless government will eventually yield a lawless citizenry... as it should. Whether they're cynics or idealists will be of little consequence.

  P.S. "The Bush Policy" - contrary to your assertion - has not been "refuted." It has been furthered, repeatedly, by the Democratic Party as recently as last week.

  But, then, you knew that already.

  —Arvin Hill Read Arvin Hill's other letters
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