But his article in yesterday's Times really struck a chord with me, and I encourage you all to read it - here's an excerpt that I found particularly poignant, and a thought that has crossed my mind more than once -
That’s why Donald Rumsfeld’s infamous defense of why he did not originally send
more troops to Iraq is the mantra of our times: “You go to war with the army you
have.” Hey, you march into the future with the country you have — not the one
that you need, not the one you want, not the best you could have.
A few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Singapore. In J.F.K.’s waiting lounge we could barely find a place to sit. Eighteen hours
later, we landed at Singapore’s ultramodern airport, with free Internet portals
and children’s play zones throughout. We felt, as we have before, like we had
just flown from the Flintstones to the Jetsons. If all Americans could compare
Berlin’s luxurious central train station today with the grimy, decrepit Penn
Station in New York City, they would swear we were the ones who lost World War
II.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html
Happy birthday to Patrick Brown, happy anniversary to Amy&Gene (May 8th for both events), happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there...
Peace,
Jeffrey
