1.0 link 130345 <![CDATA[In the Hands of Adolescents]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-ritz/in-the-hands-of-adolescen_b_130345.html There is a scene in Herman Wouk's book, War and Remembrance: a writer leaves a stockade following a beating to find the guards who'd brought him there engaged in an impromptu game of soccer.

The writer's epiphany comes in this assessment: "We're in the hands of adolescents."

I am not comparing anyone in our government to those guards (or to the writer or Wouk, for that matter). I bring up the epiphany as parallel to one I felt as I watched today's...

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