Nearly three years ago I withdrew from the “Rage Against the War Machine” rally scheduled to take place on the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC. I had written a speech that I called “the best speech I never delivered”, in which addressed the myriad of issues which confronted we, the American people, as we struggled to form a more perfect union.
The End of a Dream?
The dream of disarmament is over. It is time to wake up to reality, so that we don’t end up living in a nightmare. Now we need to dream of peace.
BY SCOTT RITTER
Let me share the final passages of that speech as an introduction to what I will be writing about in this essay: