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Quote of the Day, Jules Crittenden edition.

Harsh:

Kristol at the Weekly Standard wonders whether [President Obama will] take the high road, and repudiate his party’s rape smear, or let it stand. Judging by his lack of interest in repudiating racism smears except in the mildest and lowest profile terms possible, I’ve gotta go with let it stand. Because Obama of all people understands this isn’t about Scott Brown, it isn’t about Martha Coakley, it isn’t about the Democratic Party, it definitely isn’t about fair play or the people of Massachusetts, and it really isn’t even about health care, either. It’s about him.

…but then, this is the world that we all live in now.

Crossposted to RedState.

To a deep pit in Perdition.

Sing it, brother.

It was a decade that demonstrated what a bitter thing winning could be. Remember how, despite the opposition party’s best political efforts to abandon a war effort and abandon a nation to deadly chaos, our political and military leadership found a way to prevail there? Most people have forgotten. The more than 4,300 Americans dead in Iraq don’t need to have died in vain, though the commonly accepted narrative will be that they did. They did something good there, for that nation whose future was always written in blood, for a region that was stabilized and shown that democracy is possible. The only satisfaction from all of that was of the sort that can barely be spat out in words … You see, we’ve done it. You tried to stop us. So many fought so hard, and would not be denied. It had to be done and now it has been.

God damn the Naughts.

Personally, it wasn’t bad: but I’ll be happy to see this damned decade dead and buried.

Crossposted to RedState.

Ehh. A win in Iraq’s a win…

…and while I agree with Jules Crittenden that the current President will do his best to hog the credit for it, better for both Iraq and America that we actually win there*.  And would that the antiwar activist Left had had that reasonably obvious epiphany at any time in the last eighteen years; the USA would have had an easier time of it.  Then again, we’re talking about a group that sees no difference between rooting for their country’s victory in war, and rooting for going into debt for a collection of international sporting events – so I suppose that we should be grateful that they’ve had the epiphany of wearing their underwear inside their pants.

Moe Lane

PS: The Tom Friedman piece that Jules went off on is… also ehh.  Mostly just there to stop Friedman from having the nightmares every night.  Not that I’d presume to play telepath, or anything.

*Not that Jules is disagreeing with that sentiment, either.

Crossposted to RedState.

“Tethered: A Novel.”

Jules Crittenden thinks that Tethered: A Novel is the bee’s knees, and while he may be matrimonially biased it did get some good reviews.  It’s not my standard fare – as far as I can tell, there isn’t a single exploding starship, implausible zeppelin, angels with rocket launchers, and/or allohistorical map anywhere in the book – but I figure that Jules wouldn’t steer me wrong.  Besides, it’s kind of interesting to see how the rest of the world impinges on the world of political blogging.

OK, so I’m weird that way.

‘…but I’ve only been in country four months and already I hate liberals.’

OK, I’m going to break my rule just this once and give traffic to a pro-torture site (in this case, HuffPo) because it’s not every day that you get to see the shell of a Marxist develop its first crack from a blow of the Hammer of Objective Reality. Meet SD Liddick, and doesn’t he sing pretty?

I’m phobically allergic to the conservative Republican types the military is rife with, but I’ve only been in country four months and already I hate liberals. There’s plenty of ugliness to report in Iraq (as there are thousands of stories of hope and headway)–and the U.S. military certainly isn’t beyond reproach. Nobody’s telling you to report on one side or the other. But manipulating the truth because of your own personal biases is wretched and works in the face of progress. The other end of the political spectrum disregards you, Dahr, and now I know why. I thought it was because you’re a liar–but you aren’t. You don’t have enough backbone to be a liar. You’re a craven obfuscationist, intent on promoting your agenda at the cost of a menagerie of much braver men and women.

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