Setting the Record Straight

SEE HERE "Duty, Honor, Country" is the motto of the men and women educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Valerie Plame affair is very old news, but still needs airing for it represents a failure on the part of many to uphold their duty and honor. In particular it is disappointing that Colon Powell failed to tell the President all that he knew very early in the investigation. It would have save an innocent man from jail and it would have short-circuited what became a media circus. Too bad.

I've been listening to the audios from the IHM Home School Conference this year and the second audio in the sequence was on the manners of the late 18th century as depicted in the fiction of Jane Austen. We should read her works and strive to return our country to a more civilized state. Magnanimity towards our enemies and attention to duty were two of the themes. It is long since time to restore manners to an ill-mannered and rapidly declining society.