It is not morning in America and the sun may in fact be setting on this great experiment in representative democracy. Some American Century, eh?

I've been making this case for the past year in my own words. Perusing the Web for interesting news this week, I ran across a guest column in a Texas newspaper by a journalism professor who makes the case so explicitly that I literally fear for his job and even his life. So I will share his piece with you and see if you agree. 

Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, starts out with these shocking assertions. 

"The United States has lost the war in Iraq, and that's a good thing," he writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "As a U.S. citizen, I welcome the U.S. defeat for a simple reason: It isn't the defeat of the United States — its people or their ideals — but of that empire. And it's essential that the American empire be defeated and dismantled."

Is this guy a traitor? Or a true patriot?

To read the whole column, here's the link:

http://www.southerner.net/blog/weeklyblog054.html