Watching the fervor with which our elites press their anti-COVID prescriptions, we might be led to ask: “When is the last time that recognized experts, the national leadership of both parties, and the entire mainstream media agreed that a certain line of policy was necessary to America’s safety?”
The answer: “War in the Middle East.”
This would make a good joke if the implications were not so grim.
Thus we recall that unanimity, certitude, and zealotry among America’s governing classes is not exactly a rock-solid guarantee of wisdom. Indeed, our elites — and all Americans — would do well to ponder seriously the parallels between our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the present ongoing COVID crisis.
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