Podhoretz: This Too Shall Pass

Classic neo-con John Podhoretz, writing for The New York Post, has a philosophical look at the current condition and future prospects of the United States on the occasion of its birthday. He says, as we've said here at COTTonLINE, that the nation will survive the idiocy of its current political leadership:

The body politic is not panicking, even though the news is dire -- because it knows, somehow, that this too shall pass. America has faced worse times and weathered them. Even within our memory, it has had other leaders who also misunderstood their mandates and offered solutions to the nation's problems that only exacerbated them. (snip) Nothing is irreversible.

I expect he's right.