We don't have any
opening just now.
I'm not here for
what you have; I
am here for what
I've fairly won.
In 2008, we had a "change election"
which took remarkable hold, against
the very most vulgar resistance. It
goes on, in both Parties; but it is
the one whose property it is, we do
rush to invigorate with its origins.
It's trusteeship. Now a Clinton has
promised the Brookings Institution,
she will contrive to bind all Pres-
idents who may follow her pending
reign, to warfare against Iran for
hypotheticals which may worry her.
Ignoring the vessel of the promise,
it's the thought that counts. She
has assimilated nothing of the ge-
nius of a cause, of which she now
claims to be a prudent parent.
This is not the Constitution, much
less the civilisation, one should
wish upon a kennel for one's dogs.
Even the Pavlovian reflex requires
actual provocation, to go to war;
but is that species our baseline?
The principles of an honest intel-
lect cannot be blackmailed again,
by warnings of doom from that sec-
tor's messenger, even if familiar,
admonishing us to get to bed, and
not expect a candidacy of reason.
To no one's great awe, The Post
has trotted forward Ignatius and
Marcus, to intone that her belli-
cosity's exactly the right basis
for further discussion. An imper-
ious consensus, if not a new one.
How tiresomely they mime what we
rejected decisively, in 2008.
Oh, yes. They will warn of a cor-
rupting of the Courts, a lowering
of obligations among the well-to-
do, a curdling in béarnaise. Let
there be the trials we've endured,
and learned to master, before any
taunting to renounce our progress.
Who caused it? Who'd preserve it?
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