"Immoral" -- Andrew Sullivan

[beachmom]

At Christmas time, when Sully seemed to favor the surge, I e-mailed him (yet again), and said it was immoral. Of course, I've e-mailed lots and lots of quotes from Kerry where he says immoral.

And what do I see on his blog?

time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2007/01/give_bush_anoth.html

The choice, then, is pretty simple. Should we give the president another chance: six months, say, and see where we are? At least then we will not have to endure the taunts from those who'll declare the Democrats lost the Iraq war, or the predictable stab-in-the-back chorus (take it away, Sean Hannity!) At the same time, isn't it basically immoral to send young Americans to die for a piece of political cover that no one seriously believes can work? Isn't it immoral to ask young Americans to perish in brutal street-fighting so that we won't have to endure the crowing of the stab-in-the-back right?

Basically.

[wisteria]

1. Great Beachmom. Sometimes Sully seems to have a conscious

and be able to distinguish right from wrong.

[TayTay]

2. I agree with him.

All the options are, to one degree or another, immoral. Our chioce is between the lesser of many Bush-imposed immoralities.

Donald Rumsfeld – the man who should have been fired as Secretary of Defense long ago – Donald Rumsfeld recently gave a low and ugly speech in which he smeared those who dissent from a catastrophic policy, and then spoke of “moral confusion.”

Well, there certainly is a lot of moral confusion around these days.

It is immoral for old men to send young Americans to fight and die in a conflict without a strategy that can work – on a mission that has not weakened terrorism but worsened it.

It is immoral to lie about progress in that war to get through a news cycle or an election.

It is immoral to treat 9/11 as a political pawn – and to continue to excuse the invasion of Iraq by exploiting the 3,000 mothers and fathers, sons and daughters who were lost that day. They were attacked and killed not by Saddam Hussein but by Osama bin Laden.

And it is deeply immoral to compare a majority of Americans who oppose a failing policy and seek a winning one to appeasers of Fascism and Naziism.

John Kerry, 9/9/06