Civilization Watch - April 1, 2007 - Honor - The Ornery American: "We will fight this war, whether we like it or not. But if we don't fight it now, when it's still cheap and our enemies are still weak, then we'll fight it later, when it's on American or allied soil, and the cost in blood -- ours and theirs -- will be appallingly higher."
Thursday, April 19, 2007
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Is this a joke? This war is CHEAP? The enemy is WEAK? What the hell is this guy smoking? This enemy may not have "strength" in the classic tanks/guns/battalions sense of the word, this enemy is kicking us in the teeth, the gut, the ass, the head all over the region. Not to mention this enemy has very effectively--under our noses and due in no small part to the administration's aversion to objective truth and hard fact--engaged in ethnic cleansing throughout Iraq. So it seems more like America brought as much death and oppression as any Osama or Iranian Mullah could ever hope for. The power of the presidency shattered by the Democrats? How about the fact that the presidency as it exists now probably could use some shattering? Bush is a president, not a king. The Congress is not his Parliament to be convened and dissolved at his discretion.
I read the whole piece, and I'm disheartened by it. I had believed OSC to be a thoughtful and deliberate person, and this silly and pedantic rhetoric does not suit him. Maybe I haven't kept on him so well of late. Regardless, he disappoints me in this. The piece has an hysterical tone of the Chicken Little variety. It's naive, and worse than anything, it's bad writing. I think OSC and I are finished. I'll be sending my copies of his work to the recycle bin when I get home today. Sad, really. He's so much better than this.
I think he is real unhappy in general. I think he believes the current government is morally bankrupt, that the Democratic opposition is just as bad for other reasons, that the threat is very real, and that we're hurting ourselves by the way we are addressing it.
I wrote a post a little while back: It Isn't Enough that I think goes through some of the same territory. Something like We need to do this, and if we're going to do this, then we ought to REALLY do it.
Did you read Empire yet? Some of his feelings come through there. I posted the Author's Notes and a video interview earlier.
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