Should we be tired of hearing the same tired clichés over and over again from the right-wing? "Liberals are the enemy of American democracy!" "The media are the enemy!" etc. (For more, read Harper's Weekly's essay on right-wing paranoia) Stealing a phrase from Ron Silliman's blog, "we have met the enemy and it is us."

It would be oh-so amusing to observe or to ignore, if not for the authoritarian bent shown by the other side and its call for violence upon he-who-does-adhere-to-the-program. And let us not forget the constant factual inaccuracies.

And yet we try to appease and to debate, all in the name of the democratic process, but is the debate even worth it when the premises underlying it are unsound and when your interlocutor does not even consider you human/American/etc.

Levinas writes of an ethics that tries go beyond history. But a logic of war pulls us back into it, making the ethical event impossible. Then what?

Edit 8:15 PM: More sections of the New York Times that help terrorists.