From Haaretz, a column on the assassination of Ahmed Yassin contains this tidbit that just makes me want to cry:
But it is impossible to claim that the Israeli war commanders, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz have deceived the public. This isn't America; the government did not invent intelligence material nor exaggerate the description of the threat to justify their attack on the Hamas leader the way George Bush did on his way to Baghdad.
What happened to my country, that people can now say "This isn't the USA" the way they used to say "This isn't Soviet Russia"? How did we devolve into this land of 'free-speech zones' and become a watchword for deceit? I'm not
that naive; I know we've never been the perfect shining land our collective mythos paints. But how did we slide so far down the rabbit hole?
What am I going to do in November if we lose? Canada's looking better all the time...
(crossposted from my blog because I wanted to elicit some discussion)