Even the prettiest of Spring flowers can't cover the shame and dejection I feel as an American these days. We deserve the contempt and fear of the world.Remember the start of "Fahrenheit 9/11"? I didn't like the rest of the film - it was sophomoric, self-indulgent and stupidly apolitical - but the first half hour comes back to me now in all vividness. Surely this is a nightmare. Surely it can't really be happening. Surely.
What horror that dozing democracy should permit sleepwalkers to drag others - and even the whole world! - into their nightmare of choice.
