CounterPunch
by Roger Morris

08/30/05

What a surreal moment -- this faded end-of-summer 2005. We are locked in an evil lost war of staggering costs. Some flail at the atrocity in a cause that seems equally lost. Most play on in the ebbing season's sun, oblivious to reckonings. In Washington rules the worst regime in memory. Yet it falls to a fiercely bereaved 48-year-old mother, camping beside a dusty ditch in Texas, to embody the conscience of the culture, at least until the media move on. The regime in its outrage struts essentially unopposed in our supposed democracy. Protest rises powerless. The oblivious go uninformed, unled. ... Despite the seeming death of politics, we have never known a crisis and opportunity more political. The moment cries out for politics fought as never before...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp