America's greatest weakness

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

Apparently, it's listening to The People.

To wit:

John Noonan at The Officer's Club reflects on the 25th anniversary of the end of the Iran Hostage crisis:

...upsetting the American public is our Achilles heel.

I've always said that the Founding Fathers made a huge mistake not hiring a really good copyeditor. That Rousseauian social contract stuff just slipped right by them, didn't it?