Reader's Comment:
"How many kids she adopt again? What a shitbag brother, if true."
Alan: People who do good things in certain areas of their lives can behave monstrously in others.
For example...
To me and my friends -- including a retired 3 star Air Force general -- it was clear from the moment Bush-Cheney started beating their war drums that the invasion of Iraq would be a catastrophic mistake.
Most Americans, and nearly all "conservatives," feel an irrepressible urge at regular intervals to whoop someone's ass - preferable a "designated enemy" whose skin color is darker than white America's.
Right now - and with an eye to the 2020 election (for as Shakespeare put it, 'tis advisable to "Giddy busy minds with foreign wars") - Trump/Bolton are deciding whether the "designated enemy" this time around will be Iran, Venezuela or North Korea - yes, the same North Korea that is "no longer a nuclear threat," the same North Korea that (supposedly) would garner the Nobel Peace Prize for "His Deplorability."
The bogus run-up to The Iraq War was as manifestly stupid as Trump's current saber-rattling with Iran.
Laura Ingraham, who should have known better, was a cheerleader for that "Whimsy War" which cost a million lives, reduced much of Iraq to rubble, and destablized the rest of the Middle East - and arguably the rest of the world.
I applaud Ingraham for adopting three kids but she is, fundamentally, a gullible right-wing rube whose ill-informed "rush to war with Iraq" is markedly more reprehensible than the virtuousness of three adoptions.
In an avalanche each individual snowflake denies responsibility, but preventable idiocy always invokes responsibility for its consequences.
*****
Learn something!
Properly understood, The Iraq War was an ego-driven exercise in state-sponsored terrorism.
Responsibility for Iraq's ongoing tribulation derives directly from Bush-Cheney's Whimsy War.
Had this Whimsy War not taken place, a powerful (many would say, an "irrefutable") argument could be made that The Middle East would not have collapsed in chaos and that ISIS would not have been born.
500,000 to 1,100,000 Iraqis have already perished in Bush-Cheney's War of Choice, and millions more have suffered permanent physical and psychological damage.
If I had been among the damaged, I can easily imagine myself a hateful, sworn enemy of the United States.
If tables were turned and Iraq had occupied the United States with similar devastion, American patriots would rise up against Iraq with retributive hatred that would make ISIS look like Mother Theresa's convent.
"How many kids she adopt again? What a shitbag brother, if true."
Alan: People who do good things in certain areas of their lives can behave monstrously in others.
For example...
To me and my friends -- including a retired 3 star Air Force general -- it was clear from the moment Bush-Cheney started beating their war drums that the invasion of Iraq would be a catastrophic mistake.
Most Americans, and nearly all "conservatives," feel an irrepressible urge at regular intervals to whoop someone's ass - preferable a "designated enemy" whose skin color is darker than white America's.
Right now - and with an eye to the 2020 election (for as Shakespeare put it, 'tis advisable to "Giddy busy minds with foreign wars") - Trump/Bolton are deciding whether the "designated enemy" this time around will be Iran, Venezuela or North Korea - yes, the same North Korea that is "no longer a nuclear threat," the same North Korea that (supposedly) would garner the Nobel Peace Prize for "His Deplorability."
The bogus run-up to The Iraq War was as manifestly stupid as Trump's current saber-rattling with Iran.
Laura Ingraham, who should have known better, was a cheerleader for that "Whimsy War" which cost a million lives, reduced much of Iraq to rubble, and destablized the rest of the Middle East - and arguably the rest of the world.
I applaud Ingraham for adopting three kids but she is, fundamentally, a gullible right-wing rube whose ill-informed "rush to war with Iraq" is markedly more reprehensible than the virtuousness of three adoptions.
In an avalanche each individual snowflake denies responsibility, but preventable idiocy always invokes responsibility for its consequences.
*****
Learn something!
Properly understood, The Iraq War was an ego-driven exercise in state-sponsored terrorism.
Responsibility for Iraq's ongoing tribulation derives directly from Bush-Cheney's Whimsy War.
Had this Whimsy War not taken place, a powerful (many would say, an "irrefutable") argument could be made that The Middle East would not have collapsed in chaos and that ISIS would not have been born.
500,000 to 1,100,000 Iraqis have already perished in Bush-Cheney's War of Choice, and millions more have suffered permanent physical and psychological damage.
If I had been among the damaged, I can easily imagine myself a hateful, sworn enemy of the United States.
If tables were turned and Iraq had occupied the United States with similar devastion, American patriots would rise up against Iraq with retributive hatred that would make ISIS look like Mother Theresa's convent.
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