STAB IN THE BACK WATCH....Here's the latest from Instapundit, in its entirety:
IN THE MAIL: Col. Buzz Patterson's War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror.
I don't think that the left wants to lose the war on terror, exactly — they just want Bush to lose the war on terror. I suspect, however, that Patterson's theme is one that we'll hear more in the future, especially if things go badly in Iraq.
Oh yes indeedy, I too expect we'll be hearing more of this in the future, especially if things go badly in Iraq. Lots more.
You can almost smell the stink of desperation from the pro-war crowd. The next couple of years is going to be a nonstop frenzy of books, articles, TV shows, op-eds, radio segments, blog posts, and white papers about how everyone except George Bush and his enablers were responsible for our catastrophe in the Middle East. Anyone will do, as long as it's not them.http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_06/011542.phpfrom the comment section:
While your general point is correct, Kevin, your specific one - that anyone will do, is not.
Much of the impetus behind the Iraq War and the so-called "War on Terror" has not been to respond to any perceived or real foreign threat. Rather, it has been to settle domestic scores dating from the '60's.The reason why they blame the "liberals" is precisely because the liberals are the real or perceived villains of the '60's.
All of which is rather odd, when we consider that the '60's are as distant from today's world as the Civil War was from the Progressive Era.
Which suggests that one of our basic problems is that we have been unable to move on.
(We had some great times in the 60s....drugs, sex, rock and roll. Is this really the price we have to pay? The right wing starting their own wars so they can prove we were wrong to want out of Vietnam? Oh yeah, they did a great job this time!)