Sunday, May 18, 2008
"... you know, little remarked on is troubling likelihood that, just as if the war had gone well it would have been exploited to promote a conservative agenda and rationalize a specifically conservative view of the world, so to a failed war now works the same questionable magic for democrats and their agenda... liberal blogs and policy portals now wax all wroth about the debacle as if military affairs had all along been their favourite topic of discussion... seems like it's impossible to publicly analyze the war outside the constraints of a rather narrow political context... hard to see how that's a good thing... although it may be people are not capable of better..."
