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At a certain point, I just want to withdraw from the news, so if I don’t say much about more than general principles, please forgive me. The archives are still here; most of the content on the Iraq war, anti-terrorism measures, and Bush’s irresponsibility is still operative. I don’t write quite as much about these [...]
Isn’t it adorable how the wingnut mind can make straw men out of straw men and then extrapolate those straw men out to alarming and counter-intuitive conclusions? Consider how Stephen Green of Instapundit turns political opposition to George Bush into an “impending liberal military coup”:http://vodkapundit.com/archives/008789.php:
bq. First, the Left used the “chickenhawk” argument to claim that only [...]
It’s hard for me to sneer too much “at this new terror alert”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31951-2004Aug1.html. After all, it is a good deal more specific. It has the kind of details we’ve all hoped our government would have for the previous terror alerts. But this raises a lot of interesting issues:
* The information on this plot “came out of [...]
Remember, in the war against terrorism, you are either with us or against us, right?
So why was Anti-Terrorism ally Pakistan helping Axis-of-Evil member North Korea build nuclear bombs? And why didn’t Bush do something about it? Where was Bush’s bombast and condemnation of “evil ones”?
The Bush doctrine says MAD”—mutual assured destruction—”will not work for these rogue nations, [...]