Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Big-ups to Doug Pizzi.
9/20/2003
COLLEEN J.G. Clark's thoughtful letter ("Eroding our civil liberties won't lead to security, Page A18, Sept. 16) got it right on all counts but one. Her misguided contention that, "We deserve an administration that will speak to us honestly and openly and forthrightly, and that will treat the American electorate as serious adults."
Quibbling over Florida aside, we do have a democracy. Erstwhile presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson aptly observed, "In a democracy, you get the government you deserve."
It follows that this nation has the government it deserves. Ironically, Stevenson was viewed by some as too brainy to be president. We now have the anti-Stevenson in the White House, surrounded by people who will say and do almost anything to keep him there. Nothing will change until the American electorate gives up its culture of narcissism, educates itself on world affairs, demands to be treated as serious adults, and votes in numbers large enough to back up that demand.
Until that happens, 69 percent of Americans will be doomed to believe that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. But unlike the people of, for example, North Korea, we will be getting exactly what we deserve.
DOUG PIZZI
Marlborough