I liked this…

I was reading an old Destroyer novel (#35 in the series that now is in the 130′s) and came across a paragraph I liked.

This is being thought by a Soviet Spy in Washington DC in 1974.

The two men sat silently, staring out over the bridge railing at the greasy waters of the Potomac.  It was typical of what was wrong, and right, with America, Karbenko thought.  A beautiful, natural gem of a river had been turned into a garbage dump and an oil slick because no had thought to protect it.  And now, it was finally being reclaimed by a massive expenditure of time and effort and money.  No other civilized country in the world would have let the river get so bad.  And no other country in the world, faced with so bad and dying a river, could have been able to mount the effort and resources to reclaim it.  America ws a land of violent pendulum swings and much of the national energy was spent correcting excessive movements in one direction or another.

Factually its not accurate but it does sum up how I feel about the USA at times.  If the right and left stopped playing tug-of-war and started pulling in the same direction some amaxzing things could happen.