Agreed. Going even further, a clear line can be drawn from the original battle between Cain and Abel to the current Iraq war. Why can’t liberals see this? These are the stakes.

Over 2 million Iraqi refugees, untold hundreds of thousands dead, tortured and maimed: these things may sound horrific at first.

But when we put them in the context of an epic struggle between Good and Evil, it’s not so bad.

In fact, we don’t need to mention Iraqi suffering on our blogs at all. Better to focus on liberal malfeasance.

The naysayers are motivated by hatred and a refusal to acknowledge the truth. Sealed off in their chamber of mirrors, they see only what they want to see. We need to fight abroad, so we don’t fight them over here.

I saw it, Luther–interpreted as, giddy is good sometimes maybe, thinking what generational, continental, historical thing may be happening over there.

Interesting, though? All the lefty yammering about “diversity” and “multi culturalism” and the Lefty Intellectuals cannot understand the most basic realities of REAL cultural and political differences between people. I really think they are stuck in a sort of Disneyland view of the world. Maybe that accounts for their anger at Bush and Cheney: if they are wrong, then their entire world collapses. Ick. They are people who think Starbucks coffee is cosmopolitan and sophisticated.

History. If we studied history, we would be a lot calmer about the Iraqi war. Really.

Heather: right you are. You mentioned the Highlands, and I the history of China. But, even a knowledge of 20th Century history would help. Ten years in Malaya and the Philippines. It took about 35 years to get South Korea to the point where one elected government could succeed another. As I pointed out above Britain is withdrawing its soldiers from Northern Ireland now, after 38 years.

You cannot run a foreign policy based on ADD.

It may be that the yelping of the Dems, urging that the US get out of Iraq, may have had unintended (by the Dems) consequences: the House of Saud is so frightened by NYT headlines, and Iran, that it is actually willing to work with the Little Satan!

Good link Buddy, I almost feel like getting giddy. Sarc.