An Andrew Sullivan reader writes: "I now live in a country where the president and vice president have the power to detain an American citizen off of the street, send him to a secret prison, torture him, and detain him indefinitely without him ever hearing the charges against them. We have been lied into a war that was executed with criminal incompetence, our economy has been devastated because of lax oversight of banks giving out bad loans, we have lost a major city and the list goes on and on."
"Lost a major city"? OK, my ignorance is showing....but what is that phrase in reference to?
ReplyDeleteI followed the links back to the original article, but couldn't figure this out.
Am I missing something? Or do I have every right to be confused? :)
New Orleans
ReplyDeleteAh..... Hurricane Katrina, levees breaking, it's all coming back to me now. Shame on me for a Dory-like (that is from Nemo) short-term memory.
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