Homegrown Terrorism

Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser to George W. Bush, is on the Sunday morning propaganda programs saying -- with a straight face, no less -- that "the Iraqi people deserve a better president than Saddam Hussein." If I were watching at that moment, I might have shouted back to the screen with resigned irony, "And the American people deserve a better president than George Bush, toots."

But I am not watching, and I am not my usual ironically detached self. On this particular cloudless and frigid mid-November morning, I am standing outside the gates of the U.S. Army's Ft. Benning in Columbus, Ga., listening to the names of thousands of people -- men, women, children, priests, nuns, bishops, labor leaders, land reformers, intellectuals -- slaughtered in Latin America by soldiers trained right here on this patch of land in the Home of the Free. With my tax dollars.
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thanks to the bitter shack of resentment