Never Let These Fuckers Forget
The always hilarious and zeitgeisty Tom Tomorrow reminds us of something the always execrable and disingenuous Glenn Reynolds posted back on 11 April 2003 regarding the war in Iraq:
Yeah, there has been a lot of pro-war gloating. And I guess that Dawn Olsen’s cautionary advice about gloating is appropriate. So maybe we shouldn’t rub in just how wrong, and morally corrupt the antiwar case was. Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a “quagmire” were wrong — again! — how efforts at moral equivalence were obscenely wrong — again! — how the antiwar folks are still, far too often, trying to move the goalposts rather than admit their error — again — and how an awful lot of the very same people who spoke lugubriously about “civilian casualties” now seem almost disappointed that there weren’t more — again — and how many people who spoke darkly about the Arab Street and citizens rising up against American “liberators” were proven wrong — again — as the liberators were seen as just that by the people they were liberating. And I suppose we shouldn’t stress so much that the antiwar folks were really just defending the interests of French oil companies and Russian arms-deal creditors. It’s probably a bad idea to keep rubbing that point in over and over again.
Nah.
posted at 04:36 PM by Glenn Reynolds
The snark I leave to you gentle reader ( I have to use the singular because I know I have but one reader. I love you, Jake), all I can say is, never let these motherfuckers forget, not only how utterly and completely wrong they have been from the very beginning about this war, but also and equally, how pompously and arrogantly they dismiss any criticism of the war that they have cheered for maniacally. Lying halfwits like Reynolds need to have their noses rubbed in the crap they wrote for as long as it takes to rid them of their false sense of impunity.
I'd suggest that Reynolds go do some blogging from Iraq, but I think it's plain for all to see that reality has never been much of an obstacle for the pro-war crowd.
Yeah, there has been a lot of pro-war gloating. And I guess that Dawn Olsen’s cautionary advice about gloating is appropriate. So maybe we shouldn’t rub in just how wrong, and morally corrupt the antiwar case was. Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a “quagmire” were wrong — again! — how efforts at moral equivalence were obscenely wrong — again! — how the antiwar folks are still, far too often, trying to move the goalposts rather than admit their error — again — and how an awful lot of the very same people who spoke lugubriously about “civilian casualties” now seem almost disappointed that there weren’t more — again — and how many people who spoke darkly about the Arab Street and citizens rising up against American “liberators” were proven wrong — again — as the liberators were seen as just that by the people they were liberating. And I suppose we shouldn’t stress so much that the antiwar folks were really just defending the interests of French oil companies and Russian arms-deal creditors. It’s probably a bad idea to keep rubbing that point in over and over again.
Nah.
posted at 04:36 PM by Glenn Reynolds
The snark I leave to you gentle reader ( I have to use the singular because I know I have but one reader. I love you, Jake), all I can say is, never let these motherfuckers forget, not only how utterly and completely wrong they have been from the very beginning about this war, but also and equally, how pompously and arrogantly they dismiss any criticism of the war that they have cheered for maniacally. Lying halfwits like Reynolds need to have their noses rubbed in the crap they wrote for as long as it takes to rid them of their false sense of impunity.
I'd suggest that Reynolds go do some blogging from Iraq, but I think it's plain for all to see that reality has never been much of an obstacle for the pro-war crowd.
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