From everything I’ve seen and heard about, they’re treading very carefully towards moving towards liberty and individualism, and a free society may yet form which would be far more stable and saner than anything the US could have come up with. Cultural and ethnic homogeneity helps a lot.

gawd a mighty you Englishmen are handy with the language!

The school-marmish section of the Right got their knickers in a twist about it, giving the Left ample opportunity to mock them in the public culture. The media made instant monsters out of Ken Starr and Linda Tripp (the media has a real genius for creating an instant monster, after which no potion yet discovered can turn the frog back into a prince). And we all went round-and-round the Monica Bush busying ourselves over small beer.

Meanwhile, with no one watching, all eyes glued to Monica’s rising and falling bum size, Clinton sold out the country for 40 pieces of campaign silver, and the repercussions of that treason have yet to be felt. But as Buddy notes, the forces unleashed by Clinton’s perfidy are starting to rumble like the belly of a dragon getting ready to unleash hellfire.

Thanks Bill! You sodding great piece of filth.

Benj, about Odious (ODS) things, I believe it was John Fogarty who asked Who’ll stop the rain?

Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down
Clouds of myst’ry pourin’ confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages tryin’ to find the sun
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain

I went down Virginia seekin’ shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable I watched the tower grow
Five year plans and new deals wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain

Heard the singers playin’, how we cheered for more
The crowd had rushed together tryin’ to keep warm
Still the rain kept pourin’, fallin’ on my ears
And I wonder, still I wonder who’ll stop the rain?

The same conditions –the oil and the Caspian Axis –still pertain (ever so sadly, in view of our coming quit of the place), but at least now without the dictator & sons hereditary homocidal mania which had already in short time (1) started two foreign and several interior wars, (2) was actively practicing genocide, and (3) invigorating, funding, and supporting every subterfuge imaginable against the free world, including (read Claudia Rosett) the (4) corruption of western governments with the oil-for-food treachery unto making the UN a global crime syndicate, and (5) the treaty breaks left over from his slaughter of Kuwait, and (6) the prospect of interminable no-fly enforcement.

That the American left fastened so monomaniacally onto WMD, and would never even admit there had been so very many other larger reasons, nor even admit the existence of, even tho it was right there in the news, the Iraqi testimonies on weapons materials removals from the country during the six months of UN run-up, was the measure of the loyal opposition’s willful, spiteful, snarling ahistorical (or anti-historical) geopolitical stupidity and/or opportunistic political dishonesty.