What we are becoming

If John Kerry feels this way:

Let me be clear about something—something that it seems few people are willing to say. This bill permits torture. It gives the President the discretion to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions. No matter how much well-intended United States Senators would like to believe otherwise, it gives an Administration that lobbied for torture just what it wanted.

Why the hell doesn't he filibuster this bill?

Many bloggers have weighed in on this and I agree. When this bill passes both houses of Congress and is sent to the President, we will be a changed country. We will not be able to retrieve that banner that we have held since 1776. We will no longer be the brightest star in the sky. We will have experienced Original Sin with no redeemer in the offing.

We might say along with T.S. Eliot:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.