The Twilight of American Power?

Gerard Baker of the Times of London, believes that America is heading into another isolationist era. If this is true, which it may be, we can blame our media, who have with few exceptions done all they could to portray Iraq as a second Vietnam, Bush as an incompetent twit, and the efforts of those we hire to protect us as Orwell's 1984 incarnate. Democracy depends on having an informed electorate. That makes the news media a crucial link in the chain. When it loses diversity, the voters are no longer given a breadth of facts and arguments to choose from them. Right now, the constant din is coming from the angry left and the hysterical right, both of whom seem to be willing to have back into a hole and pull it in over us.