A threat on the home front?

• Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.
• Position: Perspectives - Brief Article

If we're serious about confronting threats to our way of life, we don't have to hunt them in the caves of Afghanistan. We can find a serious threat in the White House as the Bush administration charts its fiscal policy. Under Bush, surpluses have completely vanished. Granted, he had help from a bad economy. But spending has increased more rapidly than under any President since Lyndon Johnson, and Bush refuses to pay for it. I've seen that story before, in Argentina. Compared with Bush, John...