Tally-Ho

I've been reading a really swell book about Talleyrand (Duff Cooper, 1932) which should be required reading for all surviverists.

I hope to amuse you with a number of quotes in the days to come, but let me start with this one: "The individual who sincerely believes that his country is suffering, and will continue to suffer as the result of bad policy, has to choose between becoming either a passive spectator of his country's ruin or taking steps to prevent it which his enemies will denounce as disloyalty. When open opposition is rebellion, secret opposition becomes treason; yet there are circumstances in which such treason may become the duty of a patriot."

Homework assignment: list the nine arguments the Bush Administration has made against this sort of reasoning.