On Sunday, the New York Post
ran an excerpt from “The Unarmed Truth” by John Dodson. Dodson is the
Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent who blew the whistle on the
gun-walking operation known as Fast and Furious.
According to the Mexican government, 211 of
their citizens, including police officers and children,
have been murdered with weapons from that scandalous operation. So was American
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, whose family, along with every other concerned
American, has been stonewalled in their efforts to find out who is accountable
for this atrocity. After recounting some truly unbelievable instances of
bureaucratic arrogance and ineptitude, Dodson inadvertently poses a question
with far larger implications. “We gave thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels.
Americans died. Where is the outrage?” he asks.
Perhaps
fittingly, “The Boomer Bust,” a column by P.J O’Rourke
published the same day in the Wall Street Journal, inadvertently provides a
substantial portion of the answer. “We are the generation that changed
everything,” O’Rourke writes. “Of all the eras and epochs of Americans, ours is
the one that made the biggest impression—on ourselves. That’s an important
accomplishment, because we’re the generation that created the self, made the
firmament of the self, divided the light of the self from the darkness of the
self, and said, ‘Let there be self.’ If you were born between 1946 and 1964,
you may have noticed this yourself.”
