May 28, 8:50 p.m.: An American malaise

We are beset by a malaise that only the truth can cure.

By: Hank Kalet
   James Carroll, one of the absolute finest columnists working in newspapers in America, offers this laser-like dissection of the current American malaise in the Tuesday Boston Globe.
   "The dark national mood has many causes, but one cries out to be reckoned with immediately," he writes. "The Iraqi war was a pack of lies, and Washington’s war on terrorism is a cynical manipulation of fears for the sake of power. So far, the citizens of the United States have willfully participated in this Bush-led charade. We have done so out of the very insecurity they tell us not to feel, as if the charade, however much it wrecks the world, will protect us. But our underlying sadness indicates what we need to know."
   I couldn’t have said it any better.