Tom Engelhardt, party pooper! (Update)

Don't Turn the Page on History: Facing the American World We Created
By Tom Engelhardt
Excerpt:
Admittedly, we're a people who don't really believe in history -- so messy, so discomforting, so old. Even the recent past is regularly wiped away as the media plunge us repeatedly into various overblown crises of the moment, a 24/7 cornucopia of news, non-news, rumor, punditry, gossip, and plain old blabbing, of which each of these flaps has been but a tiny example. In turn, any sense of the larger picture surrounding each one of them is, soon enough, lessened by a media focus on a fairly limited set of questions: Was Congress adequately informed? Should the president have suppressed those photos?
And
The flaps, in other words, never add up to a single Imax Flap-o-rama of a spectacle. We seldom see the full scope of the legacy that we -- not just the Obama administration -- have inherited. Though we all know that terrible things happened in recent years, the fact is that, these days, they are seldom to be found in a single place, no less the same paragraph. Connecting the dots, or even simply putting everything in the same vicinity, just hasn't been part of the definitional role of the media in our era. So let me give it a little shot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/dont-turn-the-page-on-his_b_243851.html

I love people who can keep things in their proper perspective. I speak of those persons who have either the innate or learned abilities or both to have such organizational skills as to force America to look at itself; “The Man in the Mirror” so to speak. Kudos and a hat-tip to Mr. Engelhardt. All of America should be proud of his valued talents. I am!
As always,
BB
(Update)
Deepak Chopra: Why US Needs To Stop Being A Superpower
July 24th, 2009, 4:35 PM EDT
Under the sway of neocon ambitions, in particular, the Bush era was marked by a failed attempt to dominate the globe militarily. Mired in Afghanistan and scarred by Iraq, those ambitions proved to be shameful and foolish. A group of misguided gunslingers led to a catastrophe. Have we come to the point where disillusionment will lead us where we need to go: the end of playing the superpower role?
http://www.alan.com/2009/07/24/deepak-chopra-why-us-needs-to-stop-being-a-superpower/