The simple truth
Sadly, like all those who sell their souls to the devil, Americans did not receive what they paid for. Bush made America weaker and terrorists stronger. He did exactly what bin Laden had wanted, indeed he did more than bin Laden could have ever dreamed. The response to 9/11, of unjustified war, of torture and hatred, had destroyed America’s soul. And once the soul was gone, the body followed, rotting slowly from within, a slow decline visible in every sphere of public life, from economic decline based on untrammeled greed, celebrated as a virtue rather than the weakness and sin it is, to the complete destruction of any pretense of a viable press, capable of telling truth from lies.
