The March of Folly, Redux
Remember Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly? She died too soon. Johnson’s Folly in Vietnam was the final exemplar in her 1984 book; Troy and the infamous horse was the first. Digby at Hullabaloo is mighty impressed by Arthur Silber’s articles about the book and how its lessons are recapitulated in the current Bush’s Folly.
What or who will successfully put a coda to this ongoing folly? I don’t see it in either party, to tell you the truth. But it’s what I’m going to be looking for. This is the central challenge of millenial America: how can the most powerful nation on earth survive such monumental folly?
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