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October 20, 2003
Shorter Jonah Goldberg
I have no logic for what we did. I have no explanation for why it was done. But drawing from my vast experience in prison, fictional westerns and third grade playground politics, I conclude we were completely justified in getting tangled up in this tarbaby called Iraq.
Posted by Azael at October 20, 2003 01:17 PM
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Actually, according to Realist theory, the international milieu--anarchy and all that--is very similar to prison, fictional westerns and third grade playground politics.
Posted by: James Joyner at October 20, 2003 01:41 PM
I see what looks like 1/8th of a picture of Jonah. Is that a problem with the picture or my browser?
Posted by: Mithras at October 20, 2003 02:18 PM
Aha! Someone who may have the same problem I do. I can't see any picture under IE 6 (XP). But under mozilla, there's no problem.
Now that someone else has seen funkiness, I'll see if I can fix it...
Sorry for the technical difficulties.
Posted by: JC at October 20, 2003 04:18 PM
Should be fixed under IE. Maybe more stuff needs to be tweaked, but I now see images under IE again.
Posted by: JC at October 20, 2003 04:46 PM
I notice when I'm up at school that either the office Mac or the OS (9.5) has trouble with your site. My at home Mac does not. Sometimes the first post comes up, then disappears. Wierd.
Posted by: northsylvania at October 20, 2003 05:23 PM
"We needed to kick someone's butt (other than Afghanistan) and Iraq was by far the best candidate. Indeed, nearly a full year before the war — in April of 2002 — I wrote: "The United States needs to go to war with Iraq because it needs to go to war with someone in the region and Iraq makes the most sense."
Are you kidding?
This is the same twisting twirling heap of lies and Rove farts used before the war to justify the Bush oligarchy oil piracy in Iraq for the insipid reason stated above.
This pitiful defense forgets or ignores the 20 months of shapeshifting hype, the blatant willfuf misuse or misrepresentation of not credible intelligence, the reckless and stupid miscalcualation of the costs and timeframes of the Iraqi enterprise. It evades the treachery of the Plame outing. It ignores the thousands of innocent Iraqi and American slaughtered and maimed so America could feel good about smacking down some Arabs.
This is not America.
Bush hyped a war and failed to account for a woefully misguided recklessly underestimated nationbuilding enterprise in Iraq.
This war is being fought against the wrong muslims, for the wrong reasons, and the wrong people are piloting the good ship America into a future of neverendingwar - and all these hollow truebeliever defense are moot.
Bush must be held accountable for Iraq.
Posted by: Tony Foresta at October 20, 2003 07:26 PM
This isn't even kindergarten-style arguing and yet he gets this crap printed? What's wrong with people?
Posted by: Joerg at October 22, 2003 11:42 AM
Good question.
Posted by: JC at October 22, 2003 11:49 AM
why are you posting a picture of the sta-puft marshmallow man?
sorry. actually he reminds me of myself in 9th grade, before my forebrain finished developing. all that's missing is the crusader's cross hanging around his neck.
mine got lost while bodysurfing. interesting bit of jungian synchronicity, that.
a prime example of "faith-based foreign policy"
Posted by: r@d@r at October 23, 2003 12:31 PM
As far as I can tell, it's pretty much faith based everything these days. . .
Posted by: JC at October 23, 2003 12:45 PM
