'Mark Twain's writing should resonate with all Americans today'
"An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war," wrote Mark Twain in 1906. A century later, the writer's words are more true than ever. Twain would have made his typewriter smoke with invective if he were alive today to see the base behavior of the Bush administration and the "profiles in cowardice" of a Democratic Party that has become mere "Bush Lite" instead of the opposition party this nation and this world so desperately need as "the land of the free" lunges toward a mindless and militaristic police state of fascism, American style.
As the war drags on and the death toll mounts, the Bush team is hoping more and more Americans will swallow the line predicted so well and so mordantly by Mark Twain in "The Chronicle of Young Satan" back in 1900:
"Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame on the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."