Saturday, December 03, 2005
You Can't Trump Reality
Belmont Club's Wretchard has the goods on the Democrats' persistent Bush Derangement Syndrome-induced hysteria and the toll it's taking on party unity. Murtha has broken from sanity as he does like clockwork; Nancy Pelosi has sided with Murtha, throwing her judgement into question amongst Senate Asses. There is going to be a huge internal dust-up just in time for 2006, not just because Dems disagree about the war and therefore can offer no coherent leadership on the matter, but because they are being dishonest about it and so insulting Americans' intelligence. Americans are coming to demand that Democrats stop slandering the Office Of The President Of The United States, stop eschewing responsibility for their pre-9/11 legislative records and stop lying about the reality of the war in Iraq:
The problem with using words to trump reality is that it wagers everything on a monumental bluff. The mesmerist must carry all before him or be humiliated. A King must be obeyed or lose the throne. There is no middle ground. Personally I think the repeated conjury of the master-spell of 'Vietnam' and the endless repetition of "we have been defeated" is a strained attempt to achieve what used to be accomplished effortlessly; almost as a background process. Now the spell is being used altogether too often to be convincing, like a lion-tamer who must repeatedly shout at the mountain of snarling flesh before him to sit down. One of the characteristics of the collapse of an illusion is the suddenness with which it comes. The Soviet Union; the EU superstate; the notion of an advanced, enlightened and progressive France, were like Atlantis separated from glory and oblivion by a single night and day. I would be careful about Vietnam because the '60s, like Vaudeville, may never come again.
Reality trumps anti-war lies every single day. As Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman points out, Iraqis will prevail.
The problem with using words to trump reality is that it wagers everything on a monumental bluff. The mesmerist must carry all before him or be humiliated. A King must be obeyed or lose the throne. There is no middle ground. Personally I think the repeated conjury of the master-spell of 'Vietnam' and the endless repetition of "we have been defeated" is a strained attempt to achieve what used to be accomplished effortlessly; almost as a background process. Now the spell is being used altogether too often to be convincing, like a lion-tamer who must repeatedly shout at the mountain of snarling flesh before him to sit down. One of the characteristics of the collapse of an illusion is the suddenness with which it comes. The Soviet Union; the EU superstate; the notion of an advanced, enlightened and progressive France, were like Atlantis separated from glory and oblivion by a single night and day. I would be careful about Vietnam because the '60s, like Vaudeville, may never come again.
Reality trumps anti-war lies every single day. As Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman points out, Iraqis will prevail.
