Prometheus 6

One of the major reasons Americans are so easy to stampede is our short attention span. If we had a sense of history we wouldn't get caught up in the same scams over and over again. Americans don't even need a sense of history to make good political decisions. All we need is a sense of continuity.

Case in point: Newt Gingrich's The Only Option is to Win. He makes a number of observations and speculations that, given his political bent, are reasonable. But about a third of the way in he makes this bald assertion.

It is because the Bush administration has failed to win this argument over the direct threat of Iranian and North Korean nuclear and biological weapons that Americans are divided and uncertain about our national security interests.