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A Progressive Response to Terror

Let's stop talking about how dumb President Bush is: He's smarter than we are. He wraps whatever he wants to accomplish, from lower taxes to more drilling, in the flag of his "war on terror." And he has waged the perfect "war" for a self-indulgent capitalist democracy, which worships at the altar of individualism at the expense of the community.

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This article was originally published in The Nation.

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