More Wolcott, Please

Billmon is taking a break, but fortunately Wolcott has been prolific enough to pick up the slack this week--here's a sample of his latest:

Roger L. Simon I don't consider a liberal hawk. Because he isn't. He isn't much of a liberal of any kind.

Instead, he typifies a subset of bloggers who day-in, day-out bash the UN (particularly over the "oil-for-food" scandal") while saying damn near nothing about the billions of reconstruction money lost or stolen in Iraq and the sweetheart deals for companies like, yes, Halliburton; who dump scorn regularly on the ACLU and minimize the brutalities at Abu Ghraib; who pull that "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left me" shtick (or its cousin, "When I was young, liberalism meant this [fill in blank with noble cause], and now it means this [fill in blank with outrage du jour]; who accuse those who don't share their righteous urgency of "not getting it" or having "a pre-9/11 mentality;" who trash Juan Cole but never make a peep about Daniel Pipes or David Horowitz; the sort of blogger who even at this late date kvetches that the MSM is withholding the "good news" about Iraq...well, you get the idea.

Totten and compadres seem to think that I consider anyone who simply voted for Bush as morally culpable for everything Bush has done since on the foreign and domestic fronts. But I made it clear that I was referring specifically to bloggers who support Bush's War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq, bloggers who slant conservative Republican in the overwhelming of majority of their posts and--

--and then at irregular intervals rhetorically wag their hands to say, Hey, don't pin a label on me, I support a woman's right to choose, or gay marriage, or decriminalization of drugs, etc.

As if that absolves you for vigorously championing an immoral war based on lies, supervised by a leadership class corrupted by ideological cowards and incompetents. Even if the War on Terror is the only policy of Bush's you passionately supported and still stoutly defend, you fucked up bigtime. Because, because leaving aside the ghastly loss of lives, the wrecking of our military, and the destruction of so much of Iraq's past and present, the true beneficiary of the war has been one of Iraq's neighbors. As the Juan Cole you relish despising recently declared, "The Iraq war is over, and the winner is...Iran."

Exactly. Those at the top of the slag heap--and their minions down here at my level--make a big show about their supposed "patriotic" values, when in fact they might as well be paid agents of the mullahs and ayatollahs...in the same vein, I'll guess most folks stopping by are likewise aware that certain types of "christians" should have the label unceremoniously stripped from them, a la old time military discipline/dedmotion, for reasons so patently obvious that they need not be repeated here.

I just wish the Democratic party would pick up on both the style of Wolcott's post AND the substance--as to the former, here's a decent enough example, courtesy of the State party in New York--but as to the latter, Democrats keep dropping the ball...

I mean, this one is a no brainer: the American public TRADITIONALLY is wary of foreign entanglements. The war in Iraq--an idiotic, open-ended, discretionary conflict which offers NOTHING to this country, even IF we could somehow miraculously come away with, say, a small defeat as opposed to Dubya's biggest hangover (well, sort of his hangover--he gets the booze-like rush, WE deal with the headache come morning)--anyway, in Iraq, it's obvious to all except the intellectual equivalent of pocket lint that Bush has fucked up badly. Yet, the Democratic leadership refuses to take this and run with it. I just don't get it...

Cindy Sheehan--a citizen of this country, nothing more (albeit a citizen who, unlike most of wingnuttia, is well aware of what the term "sacrifice" means), is doing a bit more than truly honoring the memory of her son--she's showing how to OPPOSE an administration that's spent the last four years spitting on the concept of democracy. Yesterday, Arbusto-loco was forced to acknowledge Ms. Sheehan's presence (even if he considered her unworthy to gaze upon his visage). The Democratic party leadership could learn a lot from that.

And, as for wingnuttia--don't even TRY to deflect blame on this one--your foolishness, your hubris, and your idiocy has weakened the country, killed almost 2000 US military personnel, and STRENGTHENED Iran (thanks, dingbats). The Democratic party leadership might not be ready to nail y'all on that--but I think the public is getting sick and tired of the ever widening disconnect between Team Bush...and reality.