You're absolutely spot-on. I still think it's going to become a truism that the real enemies are within.
People who think that the administration started this war to turn on the cash spigots to CACI and Halliburton...I don't really have a rejoinder to that. And I don't really have a rejoinder to the notion that Democrats are nothing more than bellwethers of public opinion, espousing whatever they think will propel them into power, up to and including stopping the war in Iraq.
I weirdly see more value in both of these propositions than in the ideas that we're in Iraq for "the long term," because we're not, or to "support the troops," because we don't, or that we're there to "give them democracy," because that wasn't the reason either. Wishful thinking doesn't change the fact that we went on this adventure because we wanted a vision of national unity without having to engage the real and worsening problems of everyday Americans' lives. I see both extremes as presenting valid views...and moderate assertions about the war as invalid, boring, selectively blind, opportunistic, avaricious and cowardly.
There are great reasons to tear this country apart coming from both ends of the spectrum, and little but cynicism from the center.
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Date: 2007-03-10 10:53 pm (UTC)People who think that the administration started this war to turn on the cash spigots to CACI and Halliburton...I don't really have a rejoinder to that. And I don't really have a rejoinder to the notion that Democrats are nothing more than bellwethers of public opinion, espousing whatever they think will propel them into power, up to and including stopping the war in Iraq.
I weirdly see more value in both of these propositions than in the ideas that we're in Iraq for "the long term," because we're not, or to "support the troops," because we don't, or that we're there to "give them democracy," because that wasn't the reason either. Wishful thinking doesn't change the fact that we went on this adventure because we wanted a vision of national unity without having to engage the real and worsening problems of everyday Americans' lives. I see both extremes as presenting valid views...and moderate assertions about the war as invalid, boring, selectively blind, opportunistic, avaricious and cowardly.
There are great reasons to tear this country apart coming from both ends of the spectrum, and little but cynicism from the center.