Democrat, thy name is frailty
Besides Digby, my favorite American blogger these days is Billmon. As am I, he is giving up on the spineless lickspittles known as the Democrats.
But I think we’ve run out of time. Events — from 9/11 on — have moved too fast and pushed us too far towards the clash of civilizations that most sane people dread but the neocons desperately want. The Dems are now just the cadet branch of the War Party. While the party nomenklatura is finally, after three bloody years, making dovish noises about the Iraq fiasco, I think their loyalty to Israel will almost certainly snap them back into line during the coming “debate” over war with Iran.
I hope like hell I’m wrong about this, but I don’t think I am. So I guess I’ll just have to accept being labeled a traitor to the cause — or whatever the hardcore partisans are calling it. Sure, why not. They’re certainly free to follow their party over the cliff (we’re all going over it anyway) but I’d at least prefer to do it with my eyes open.
I have nothing to add, except the observation that the difference between Democrats and Republicans on foreign policy is generally lesser than that between Bush and his lapdog, Blair.
Oh wait, there’s also another thing. Even celebrities of the liberal netroots, dismissed by the über-corrupt Washington establishment as “crazy lefties,” have proven themselves pathetic cowards. Yes, I’m talking about you Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, you who haven’t objected to Usrael’s blasting away of Lebanon with a single word.
I never admired your mediocre writing, but I used to respect you once. Now, to be blunt, I wouldn’t cross the street to take a leak in your face if your hair were on fire.
“Now, to be blunt, I wouldn’t cross the street to take a leak in your face if your hair were on fire.”
Yes that is blunt! Thanks for the laugh. Gallows humor is the best kind — it is all that one has left.
Comment by PT — August 5, 2006 @ 1:04 am
Alas, indeed.
Comment by Sirocco — August 5, 2006 @ 12:22 pm
I read Billmon’s ‘The War Party’ and was stunned by it. My hope is that it is the worst case, but I truely fear that it is accurate.
Billmon has been ‘on fire’ about the most war in Lebanon. Robert Fisk’s column’a have also been heartfelt and wrenching.
Comment by MR — August 5, 2006 @ 12:29 pm
Yes, thank heavens for Fisk. He is sometimes a bit too ideological for my taste, but on this is he simply spot on. And I am in drift toward his general outlook.
Comment by Sirocco — August 5, 2006 @ 3:25 pm