The link: George Will’s Afghanistan Moment (theatlanticwire.com)
A quote:
America’s slipping fortunes in Afghanistan have caused conservatives to ally with Obama on staying the course, while liberal and moderate support for the President’s war efforts have been foundering, as the Wire has covered here and here. Today, George Will, the premier tory conservative columnist in the Washington Post, breaks ranks with Republicans in a bombshell column that joins war skeptics by calling for a withdrawal of American troops…
I linked to the above because there are lots of links to Republican-type-harletos who are propagandizing.
I’m not against warring if that’s what we should do. What I’m against is rah-rah propaganda to where we always have to win in some grand, dramatic, ultimate manner.
It’s a big world, and we should be realists. If we can’t nuke ‘em all, which we can’t, and don’t want to, then we should realistically decide what we can do, and then be honest about it.
Not everyone wants to live like we do. Not everyone has our values. Some people got bad ideas. Some people got bad religion. They don’t wanna change. So the best you can do sometimes, when those type of people are your enemy, is contain them, and keep them subdued. It’s not so romantic sounding as proclaiming how we’re gonna bring democracy to the world, but it’s reality.
