November 13, 2004

• A letter from Fallujah, from an anonymous Army medic's journal entry.
• It's deja vu all over again! --Yogi Berra
• Imperial Amnesia
• Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy, And what dictators do, The elderly rubbish they talk To an apathetic grave; Analyzed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. --Auden, "September 1, 1030"