Likelihood of Success

Don’t confuse us with the facts

Jul 8, 2007 Medialites, Orient, Politics and Poker

The rightosphere is focusing fire, appropriately, on the Times’s “unconditional surrender, and quick” editorial. Via Glenn, here’s a nice selection by Lorie Bird entitled, “Choose Genocide“:

I just don’t understand why those on the left are so afraid to talk about the progress that is being made. If they think it is just a waste of time and effort and lives, then they can say that, but at least acknowledge that the men and women of our military are experiencing some success. Then if they want to argue that genocide is preferable to victory in Iraq, I will at least believe they are being honest.

Actually, I think Lorie is playing with us a little and understands very well why the capitulation party does not make balanced arguments, but she, too, is making a rhetorical point, and a valid one. As I said in the comments at Dean’s World scant hours ago, there is no other way to describe this policy other than the all but formal handover of Iraq and its people — including its Sunni population — to Iran, the Islamoreich in all its glory (click the pic at right for a taste). But, as I also commented here a short time ago — and yes, this story is hot on a slow (and hot) news day — the endorsement of the New Irrationalism on Iraq by the Grey Lady is emboldening that policy’s greatest proponent, the Hon. Mrs. Cindy Sheehan, for a Comeback Tour.

Could this not be the silver lining on the whole thing — a bustup of the Wacky Left / Washington Left coalition and a genuine threat to the coronation of Senator Clinton? Is that what the New York Times is shooting for? I would never have thought of it, but … New Irrationalism, indeed!