We’re in the midst of a summer of discontent.
You may have seen polls showing that most of our people do not think the president and Congress are leading us in the right direction.
Of course, opinion polls don’t elect anybody, voters do. So we as a nation cannot evade our own responsibility for the conditions that are troubling us. Among the circumstances that have made the recent months so bleak are:
Unemployment above 9 percent.
Our long-term military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as President Barack Obama’s more recent decision to involve us in attacks on Libya. We have no admiration for Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, but there is no assurance that rebels there will defeat him, nor that they will be a clear improvement on his oppressive rule if they do triumph.