[The Urban Sombrero]

Commonly referred to as the result of socialist liberalism...

Ah, socialist liberalism he says. Madeline O'Hare. Roe v. Wade. Watts. Rodney King. Rainbow on the White House. "Whose country is this any way?" The Constitution, written by white men, land-owning men. Men who may not have served God, but by god, they believed in God.

Immigrants have never been particularly welcome. "Whose country is this any way?" To whom does this country belong? Who are its benefactors?

The debate as to what the answer is to these questions rages now as it has always raged. When the answers are increasingly narrow, the ranks of the "wholesome and pure" shrink down, when a group who feels itself right and righteous also feels slighted, and anger grows, and animosity grows, well, Bob, Tony Blair nailed it. And his warning applies to any and all who want to narrow and narrow the blessings of liberty from a sense of "we are the true benefactors, and we are angry."

History's lessons are there for the learning.