I was just over at Booman's and found out that the article Jerome quotes end thusly

This is a fact that must be integrated into our public life--absorbed as new history--so that America can once again feel the moral authority to seriously tackle its most profound problems. Then, if we decide to go to war, it can be with enough ferocity to win.

Holy crap! This is a WaPo editorial, people. The US is on the brink of something ugly.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman