The Great Enemy Of Any Totalitarian Regime

I've Never Met Any Strong Critic Of The United States Anywhere In The World Who Gave Us Any Credit For Having Limit On Government.

And New People Come In, And It Doesn't Go Along With Their Politics, And They Fire Me, End The Column, Silence A Voice In Los Angeles. They Can't Silence It Nationally, But They Are Able To Do It There.

The Publisher, Jeff Johnson, Who Has Offered Not A Word Of Explanation To Me, Has Privately Told People That He Hated Every Word That I Wrote. I Assume That Mostly Refers To My Exposing The Lies Used By President Bush To Justify The Invasion Of Iraq. Fortunately Sixty Percent Of Americans Now Get The Point, But Only After Tens Of Thousand Of Americans And Iraqis Have Been Killed And Maimed As The Carnage Spirals Out Of Control. My Only Regret Is That My Pen Was Not Sharper And My Words Tougher.

We've Had The Trivialization Of Our Politics Going On Ever Since We Had Electronic Media.

Eisenhower Provided The First Break In The Cold War, By Bringing Khrushchev To The United States, In Humanizing The Soviets; And Then Nixon, By Making The Opening To China; And Then Reagan, Even Meeting In Reykjavik With Gorbachev And Acknowledging That Nuclear Weapons Are A Horror. So I Won't Accept That Republicans Just Escalate. Republicans, At Least When They Were More Moderate, They Were Maybe Even More Isolationist, They Sometimes Brought Sanity To The Debate. We Don't Have That Now. We Have - All These Republicans Have Gone Off The Neoconservative Deep End.