tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13940579.post112206313230565056..comments2023-12-29T00:19:03.679-10:00Comments on J. Miller Rampant!: American Public Negative on Bush's Iraq Policy 64-34!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13940579.post-1122135088777197602005-07-23T06:11:00.000-10:002005-07-23T06:11:00.000-10:00Sadly, I'm afraid Huxley's quote is indeed highly ...Sadly, I'm afraid Huxley's quote is indeed highly applicable.Joseph Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16904308531108096090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13940579.post-1122102475518426392005-07-22T21:07:00.000-10:002005-07-22T21:07:00.000-10:00"Less than a quarter of those polled, 23 percent, ..."Less than a quarter of those polled, 23 percent, said they were confident the U.S. policies in Iraq would be successful, down from 26 percent in May, according to the poll."<BR/><BR/>And Aldous Huxley would agree with the majority on this topic:<BR/><BR/>"...No people that passes abruptly from a state of subservience under the rule of a despot to the completely unfamiliar state of political independence can be said to have a fair chance of making democratic institutions work. Again, no people in a precarious economic condition has a fair chance of being able to govern itself democratically. Liberalism flourishes in an atmosphere of prosperity and declines as declining prosperity makes it necessary for the government to intervene in the affairs of its subjects..."<BR/><BR/>- From <I>Brave New World Revisited</I>, published in 1960Lance Ehlershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01447042443661666932noreply@blogger.com