The television was broadcasting words, in English, by someone name Newt Gingich. And a star-spangled graphic across the screen said something that might have been a foreign language for all the sense Mortenson could make of it:
"Majority Whip Touts Republican Takeover"
On the television, a strident, cocksure voice told an interviewer,
We are embarked on the Second American Revolution and you have my solemn vow that with a new Republican majority in Congress, American life is about to be profoundly different. The people have spoken.
"Different," yes. But "better?" History has its lessons.
Sources:
From "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
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