Doak: Following our own script, we've weakened America

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Outstanding Editorial in the Register today!

If al-Qaida had planted a sleeper agent whose job was to gain a position of influence and undermine America from within, he scarcely could have done more damage than Americans have done to ourselves.

The meltdown in the credit markets, a sagging economy, inflation-ravaged take-home pay and, worst of all, a bleak outlook for the years ahead did not materialize out of the blue. They are the consequences of deliberate policy choices.

Those consequences were entirely foreseeable, but Americans and their government simply chose not to heed the warnings.