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!
July 8th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Cindy Sheehan and the New York Times
Perfect together?
I wouldn’t have thought it. But in the era of the New Irrationalism — and the Times’s own desperate strait…
July 8th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Cindy Sheehan and the New York Times
Perfect together?
I wouldn’t have thought it. But in the era of the New Irrationalism — and the Times’s own desperate strait…
July 9th, 2007 at 7:20 am
Just what we need, a feud between the crazy and the near-crazy.
However, Republicans aiming to be elected President in 2008 have their own conflict to deal with, the one with my Senator Lugar and other Republican rationalizers of defeat.