Monday April 07, 2003

JESUS -- OF NAZARETH? I CANNOT CALL HIM TO MIND. It has been suggested that my Phil Ochs quote below is inapposite, as our troops are being nice to the Iraqi civilians. That's to their credit, of course. And I expect they'll go on being nice, in Iraq and in the other countries that, Ralph Peters and others suggest, we will wind up visiting soon. But empires don't stay nice for long, as can be seen by the example of the Romans -- or, as Peters has it, the previous version of us. It's possible, of course, that we'll be different. We certainly used to be.