In one of the most triumphant displays of rhetorical excess in recent memory, Tom Turnipseed (I am not making the name up) has managed to meld every hackneyed leftist ideal into one semi-incoherent smorgasbord of self-loathing and blame-shifting. In an article titled The Bush Administration’s Folly: Arrogance of Arms Abroad and Access to Avarice at Home, Mr. Turnipseed needs only 8 paragraphs to cook up and serve a paranoid stew that discusses:
1.) Chris Patten’s distaste for the phrase ‘axis of evil’
2.) Eu distaste in our not engaging North Korea
3.) Patten’s hatred of our ending terrorism but not attacking ‘root causes’
4.) American triumphalism
5.) Vladmir Putin’s insistence we not topple Saddam Hussein
6.) Kurdish (these are the people Hussein gassed) opposition to American interference in Iraq (he gets bonus points here, because he in one stroke claims our foreign policy is hand crafter by the Turks and mentions that they dislike us because we abandoned them in 1991)
7.) The London Observer and Paul Kennedy’s criticism of our defense budget
8.) Enron
9.) Shays-Meehan and Campaign Finance Reform
10.) Iranian anti-American protests
I am dizzy.