September 15, 2005
Deep Thoughts...
by Jeff Goldstein:
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Shearer’s implicit argument that because not everyone who remained behind in NOLA could have been safely evacuated, attempts to evacuate some or most of those left behind could (should?) not have taken place clearly echoes the anti-war argument that because the US can’t simultaneously overthrow every tyrannical dictator in the world, it is somehow indelicate to rid the world of one (even if doing so jibes with our national interests)—and, in the process, frees 25 million people from a murderous Ba’athist rule.
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Nice try, but they really is no valid tie in between NOLA and Iraq.
Posted by: Kstumpf at September 15, 2005 05:24 PM (gvpiY)
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But Bush did it!
Posted by: Michael at September 15, 2005 05:29 PM (CM3Dm)
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He's pointing to the mindset of one and how it is reflected in that of the other, Kstumpf.
Again we get another aspect of the party of "No". While one details the reasons why something cannot or could/should not be done, the other points out why it must be tried.
And they call themselves "progressive".
Posted by: Oyster at September 15, 2005 06:24 PM (YudAC)
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In libspeak, where up is down and black is white, progressive means regressive or recidivistic, which makes perfect sense, and explains why they are infatuated with a 7th century death cult that wants to destroy civilization and take us back 1400 years.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 16, 2005 09:54 AM (0yYS2)
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Few others could write a sentence like that and have it readable and sensible. Certainly not me! (See above.)
Posted by: slickdpdx at September 16, 2005 11:51 AM (MjGRu)
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Thank you Oyster, I get that part. I still believe it is a weak attempt to bring the two independent circumstances to gether. That dog don't hunt.
Posted by: Kstumpf at September 16, 2005 03:35 PM (GImrl)
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Kstumpf, I think you were the one trying to bring them together, not Rusty. ;-)
Posted by: Oyster at September 16, 2005 03:56 PM (fl6E1)
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Now, really! Does anyone really care what Harry Shearer has to say about anything?
Posted by: Don Miguel at September 16, 2005 04:45 PM (+KixN)
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Baathists are losers.
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 18, 2005 07:15 AM (VhNDM)
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