A busy weekend has kept me blissfully free of political news for the last couple of days. Good thing nothing ever changes!
Over at Digby's place, coblogger dday unintentionally illuminates one of the starkest failures of the liberal intellect as regards Occupied Iraq:
The various parties in Iraq aren't even speaking to one another, let alone producing legislation aimed at reconciliationOh. Legislation. Where do they find these people?
8 comments:
Come on, IOZ, you mean you don't think that a bunch of amoral, greedy and vicious thugs who believe that whomever they worship has given them license to do whatever they want to, won't all be buddies if their constitutional government gets together and says we'll all be friends now? Where's your faith, your trust in the whole Jeffersonian democracy breaking out and blooming like a thousand flowers in the fertile crescent from which civilization arose?
Probably about where mine is. And, the slaughterhouse may well be the most fundamental metaphor of civilization, be it humane and regulated strictly according to the laws of Moses and Mohammed or as cruel and vicious as a rendering plant on the steppes of west Texas.
Axe,
For a bit there in the first paragraph I thought you were talking about the Republicans.
ioz,
i think you're being too hard on dday. consider some historical perspective. the american civil war was bad, sure. but it's pretty obvious that the only lasting problems were caused by the dearth of congressional legislation during the fighting.
If only Iraq could pass sufficiently progressive zoning laws! What a paradise it would be!
Yeah, when are they going to pass that law where they sign all their oil over to foreign investors?
Under rocks, oozing out of caves....
You know, the usual places.
TT
p.s. Welcome back - to the real world.
TT
If your main point is that spiffy legislation ain't the solution to all ills, sure, I'm with you, but dday's main point is calling bullshit on the official Iraq narrative, and since legislation is one of the Bushies' own metrics, it's a pertinent critique. That one sentence may touch on one of your bugbears, but even if one agrees with your characterization, that sentence is hardly representative of the post as a whole, and surely you can disagree with 5% of a post without seeming to dismiss the other 95%? Nir Rosen's recent Rolling Stone piece is a sobering portrait of Iraq, and I'm frankly much more concerned about discrediting the various Kagens running around proclaiming Baghdad full of sunshine and sweetmeats.
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