Good Writing Today

Herbert today in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/opinion/12herbert.html?hp

"A country that used to act like Babe Ruth now swings like a minor-leaguer. The all-American can-do philosophy has been smothered by the hapless can’t-do performances of the people who have been in charge for the past several years. It’s both tragic and embarrassing."

"The war in Iraq stands like a boulder in the road, blocking progress on so many other important issues that are crucial to our viability as a society. We’ve seen this before. Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, which included the war on poverty, was crippled by the war in Vietnam."

"On the evening of April 4, 1967, one year to the day before he was assassinated, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went into Riverside Church in Manhattan and said of the war in Vietnam: 'This madness must cease.'"

"Forty-one years later, we can still hear the echo of Dr. King’s call. The only sane response is: 'Amen.'"