White Guilt and the Western Past -- Why is America so delicate with the enemy?
I'm still thinking about this one. While it's true that we've lost the
confidence to really finish what we start, I don't know that I
completely buy Mr. Steele's theory of causation.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318
My biggest fear as we prepared to go into Iraq the second time was that
we didn't have the balls to run such a place. Mr. Steele certainly
supports that perception.
Readers outside of the US will need one fact about Mr. Steele to
understand the context: he is that rarest of things, a conservative
american black.
Joe Gwinn
Rec: Wall Street Journal, 2 May 2006, page A16.
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