Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.