Excerpted from TVNL

Here they come again – the Sousa bands, the waving flags,
the cheering crowds, and the fabulous fireworks. Ah, yes, it’s Yankee
Doodle time again in America. So let’s get ready to party.

It’s just that I really don’t understand what we’re celebrating.

I don’t really understand why millions of people in this country still
pretend that they live in America the Beautiful. I don’t understand why
they are not wailing in grief because Yankee Doodle is no longer
“dandy.” I don’t understand why there is no widespread sadness about
the tragic transformation of their national image.

In fact, in this eighth year of our Bush/PNAC captivity, far too few
people in the United States are willing to acknowledge that Yankee
Doodle Dandy has now become Yankee Doodle Deadly. The sad truth is that
too few people are even remotely aware that the American flag, like
Yankee Doodle, has lost every bit of its meaning. (More.....)