"Why's that nigger talkin' 'bout Vietnam?"

Over at DailyKos, the Deux Magots of Donkle self-amplification, something called Hesiod, who I do believe I've seen slinking around the comments chez Henley, quotes America's Most Hysterical Homosexual™ before doing the usual Donkle disdainery over the appearance of some additional anti-Occupation sentiment at an "anti-War" rally.

As usual, "Free Mumia" serves as a neat synechdoche for leftie perfidy, when all the pwoggies really wanted was for some nice, middle-class, reg-uh-lurr Americans already in the opinion-poll majority to show up and pose for the cameras while listening to stump speeches by Democratic politicos. As usual, there is an unconcealed animosity for those who understand that the America-funded Israeli occupation regime and the American occupation in Iraq are predicated on the same cultural assumptions and military policies. They aren't just incidentally or regionally related.

The weird-looking lefties who always ruin the Donkle's pleasant afternoon on the National Mall, for their many immaturities and manifold faults in the field of PR, at least possess a sufficiently sophiticated understanding of the history of their nation to understand the Iraq war as an extension and realization of many decades of American policy toward the rest of the world. At very least, they know that the narrative renders the Iraq war as a deeply regrettable aberation in a century of generally positive American international involvement is simplistic, stupid, and desperately, childishly naïve. The war in Iraq is not discrete, but your basic Donkle is too dumb and blinkered to realize this, and sees it only as momentarily choppy waters impeding the glorious forward moment of the Good Ship Take Back America.

Lesson: neither elected Dems nor the nabobs of Netrootsia have any interest in actually confronting the American imperium head-on. It hurts their little noggins. They love them some manly military men like Fightin' Jim Webb. They love his "greatest nation in the country" remix. They share his affection for Andrew Jackson, who "relocated" 40,000 Indians. JFK was good, the Great Society was great, Vietnam was a "mistake," Nixon was bad, Carter, eh, Reagan terrifies them even now, George père has acquired a new veneer of respectability for "not going to Baghdad," the height of foreign policy perspicacity, Bill Clinton was a saint of a man ruined by vendetta, and Gee Dub disappoints them by directing the restrictive powers of the Eternal Maternal State at those things they approve rather than the opposite. Their normative historical mode is mythological. Their habitual rhetorical position is self-righteous. Their only outward expression of moral sense is disdain. Their only interest is to acquire status in the status quo.