Paul Krugman's column in the New York Times today is characteristically effective in highlighting the dangers of this regime. As he points out, those who question this administration will be denounced in terms that have historically been reserved for authoritarian regimes-dissent has become treason.
But I feel Krugman has not gone far enough. It is not enough to be dismayed that Bush and the far right cast their critics are traitors. We must question their patriotism. We must propose that trying to crush freedom of speech and using the threat of terror as a political weapon speak of a love of self and a love of party and a love of power and not a love of country.