The age of truth and deceit

In the post-Lewinsky world, where taboos have been shattered, truth is more available than ever before. There's the internet, bloggers in pajamas, split screens, cable and satellite ad infinitum, and a record restraint on self-censorship. No matter what the lie from our leaders or adversaries, there's someone to expose it, refute it, or mock it. Which means the purveyors of the lies must become ever more sophisticated. The lies must be bigger, bolder and more universal. So we hear that budget deficits don't matter, that permanent war will bring permanent peace, that moral truth is the same in every culture, that honest citizens need not fear wiretaps, that individual accounts will save social security, and that politicians mean it sincerely. The world is indeed in a state of permanent war: A war of truth against deceit. History has shown that truth eventually prevails. Monika Monica George W. Bush