Baltimorei

[LDAHL]

Fixed that first paragraph for you.

You keep trying to turn a practical question into a moral one. The thrust of my argument has been that the first function of any political system has to be survival, and that if it fails there nothing else much matters. There are certainly a fair number of blotches on the American escutcheon, but as a political system it has managed to survive and thrive since the eighteenth century.