Once More into the Chickencoop (re: Rich Lowry)

[donsu]

http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/08/once_more_into.php


Rich Lowry is tired of shooing away swarms of gnats pestering him whenever he takes quill in hand to compose an ode to Ares. It's enough to make a man abandon the harpsichord.

He laments on NRO: "Invariably, whenever columnists like myself write in support of the Iraq war without having served in the military there, letters flood in deriding us as 'chicken hawks.' How can writers support the war without fighting in it themselves? these letter writers ask, although usually not so politely."

He has an answer for his hecklers, and a lame answer it is too.

"If only members of the military — who are overwhelmingly conservative — were considered competent to decide the nation’s posture on matters of war and peace, we would have an even more forward-leaning foreign policy. I’m comfortable letting the 82nd Airborne decide what we do about anti-American rogue states. Are opponents of the war?"

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James Wolcott takes them all to task in this long article

[gratuitous]

1. Thanks for the heads-up

I usually read Wolcott's online column, and it's usually worth it. His dismantling of repressive right blowhards is uncanny. I remind myself daily not to get on the wrong side of him.

[bballny]

2. Two guys I would not want backing

me in a fight are Goldberg and Podheretz. They just strike me as 2 incredible wimps bback to Ledeen, I read an article that stsed that repubs believe that you need a war to cement your presidency and that Carter failed because he didn't have a war. I honestly believe that they thought this was going to be an easy win. As in all greek tragedies it is hubris that get's you and if this group doesn't suffer from too much hubris then I don't know anyhting about hubris.