Ergo


All people and all nations are sometimes right, sometimes wrong. Some people can never admit that they are wrong, under any circumstances. You've known a few during your life. How did you feel about them then? What's your reaction as you think of them now? Has the perspective of time changed your opinion very much?

However you feel about that person, it's probably pretty close to how the rest of the world feels about the "United" States of America right now. Until USA can sometimes admit being wrong, no improvement can be seen in the world's opinion. We won't have to 'fess up every single time we're wrong, and some people might argue that that would be far too time-consuming. Also, the little Machiavelli on your shoulder tells you that it won't always be politically expedient to say, "We made a mistake." USA merely has to learn to acknowledge, and perhaps apologize, on those special occasions when Reality, usually so slippery and elusive, is incontrovertibly shouting, "You have royally screwed up this time!"

If a country cannot do this, how will it ever become human?

----------- Lp


I still don't know if I can admit when I'm wrong, but I can at least apologize to you as well as myself for not posting a Misterioso dispatch for almost two months. Seems I became abstracted while walkin' along by an azure sea, watching it rise. As a peace offering, here's a poem that appeared over this morning's coffee.......


In the Land of Lunch

Princess in the tofu palace
Bringing Tobasco from a
faraway, smoky land. Now,
When I taste teriyaki,
I think of you.