Them's your choices at the polls today, at least as far as foreign policy is concerned, as I see it. The Iraq war is a tragic mess and it's hard to justify hope of a decent and stable government emerging there. But as in 2004 the Democrats don't have much to offer except Monday-morning quarterbacking and ankle-biting. Increasingly it appears that neither party has much to offer except "Well, at least we're not them!"
And by the way, I'd like to express my irritation at the exhortations to "get out and vote" at all costs. If you aren't at least halfway informed, please, don't bother.
I think I will drink a toast tonight to my old high school civics teacher, J.D. Clanton, who, as a classmate from those days recently reminded me, knew what it meant to be a citizen and did a damned good job of communicating it. Any failure of his students to follow through can't be attributed to him. I can't praise a teacher much more highly than by saying I wish he could have taught my children.
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