Hopefully, it's just the summer doldrums. Hopefully, I'm just being paranoid.
But the news seems quiet. America has dozed off again. The news networks focus on Michael Jackson's trial, and now its aftermath, and trying to pretend nothing much is happening. Congress is its usual tempest in a teapot, with Democrats trying to play gotcha games, Republicans trying to do nothing, and both succeeding. The Administration is quiet.
Out of the public eye, American and allied soldiers go about their duties in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some die in the line of duty; many more fight and win, but their actions go unreported. They are only news when they die, reduced to pawns in the great political game of deceptions, lies, and half-truths. Their victories are ignored, their survival unremarked.
Somehow, it feels like the summer of 2001. An unrestful quiet; an uneasy peace.
But I'm just being paranoid. Right?
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