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Thursday, July 31, 2008

My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down
Posted by Tata | 9:40 AM
Ben Wattenberg's appearance on The Daily Show scared me. I was afraid he'd get away with saying any old poisonous thing. Jon Stewart softens his style when confronted with an older person or a genteel woman. His interview of Nancy Pelosi earlier this week contains a few Jon, did you hear what she just said? moments, for example. But back to Ben Wattenberg - or more specifically, back to me, on the edge of my seat last night: Jon lets a few very dangerous assertions get past him before he's had enough.



Let me declare, now and forever, that after 9/11 I supported the bombing of NO ONE, the declaration of war on NO ONE, no shredding of the Constitution, no denial of anyone's human rights, no lunkhead rush to vengeance, no. At no time have I ever supported the insensible and grammatically insupportable War on Terror. No. And I know plenty of people who did not lose their minds and wet their beds, plenty of people who opposed rash action and depraved indifference to genocide and torture - you probably number among those people. The media's narrative says EVERYONE supported and supports this pointless, endless, and cowardly fool's errand. It simply isn't so, and insisting doesn't make it so.

Now - with that much straight - now, we can start talking seriously.

Crossposted at Poor Impulse Control.
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Blogger J said...
How refreshing to hear this stated so clearly. I, also, was horrified by the knowledge that we would bomb another country. I had no desire to go to war, and I knew we would. It was a crappy, crappy feeling.
7/31/08, 10:12 AM  
Blogger The Minstrel Boy said...
at first, i did support the afghanistan action. i thought, that in the absence of a viable state, an action to enter, dismantle the network of camps that had done us grevious harm, apprehend the law breakers who envisioned, and implemented the deed to be transported to our country for open trials, that sort of thing, was a good idea.

to go in, and "bomb them back to the stone age" when that was the state of the afghani nation already, the russians having been there for ten bloody years, was too much.

not to defend the taliban in any way, they are seriously deluded allahiopaths, with rampant corruption and a strong sadistic bent, but, the fact that they could not, or would not remove al qaeda's bases was not a justification for bringing them down and accepting the responsibility for building a nation where no outside power since alexander has failed that same task.

strange that we need to turn to comedy central in order to get rational thought and commentary isn't it?

problem is, i ain't laughin' much.
7/31/08, 11:23 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I woulda smacked him. How annoying and condescending that man was... He acted like Stewart was just too stupid and silly to understand a thing.
7/31/08, 11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
What an arrogant prick. He needs to understand that we are far more efficient at killing Iraqis than Saddam was.
8/1/08, 9:54 AM  
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