Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Thursday, July 03, 2003 :::
Kate thinks that the Christian Science Monitor is mistaken in its implication that Americans today think of democracy as -- Kate's apt words -- "an off-the-shelf product."
I heard a discussion of this on the radio yesterday. I hope she's right, and believe she's right. I think most people knew, when Bush said we might be in Iraq for quite a while, that it wasn't just political boilerplate. But there are a lot of naive people out there, especially in the press.