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The title says it all. Mr. Quick is back from his hiatus.
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Hitchens reviews that bilious pile of twaddle that is Sidney Blumenthal’s The Clinton Wars:
Not long ago in this magazine David Brooks mapped a political sociology elaborating on the notion that the country was in theory divisible between heartland “red” districts and more coastal “blue” ones, the colors showing (rather counterintuitively, perhaps) a respective difference between Republican and Democratic areas. Soon afterward one of Bill Clinton’s reliable yes-men, Paul Begala, issued a response, asserting that it was in “red” districts that gay men like Matthew Shepard were lynched, or black men like James Byrd were dragged behind pickup trucks until they died.
If this meant anything, it meant that the difference between a donkey and an elephant was the difference between democracy and fascism, or between pluralism and absolutism. But just wait for the good people’s party to be caught doing something shady or vile; at once you will be told that it’s no worse than what the bad people’s party would do or has done. Immediately, in other words, the apologist will admit that the game is up, and that he is judging his own team by a standard (of ghastliness in others) that he himself helped to set. “They all do it” means, in this circle, “We all do it.” But the apologist won’t concede this consciously or honestly. Faced with the task of explaining the Clinton pardons, including one to Marc Rich, Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior Clinton adviser and friend of Dick Morris’s, immediately responds, in The Clinton Wars, that Richard Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa; and as for the $190,000 in gifts accumulated by the Clintons, it was “roughly the same amount as the preceding Bushes had accepted.” Since he elsewhere accuses the Republican Party of being essentially lawless and segregationist, he might admit that he’s setting himself a low standard.
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Dean Esmay on Democrat whining about Republican fundraising:
So. We’ll get to hear more handwringing from the whiners of the Left about how much more money Bush has than his Democratic challengers. But while you’re listening to this pathetic whining–and make no mistake, you’ll hear lots more of it over the next year or so—just remember: Democrats set the game up this way, and Bush handed them the rope by which they hung themselves.
It is truly deserving of unbridled contempt.
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If you look to the right, you will notice several new blogs that I have added to the roll.
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That is what David Warren seems to think:
Salam refers to the Americans slickly as the “puppet-masters.” He speaks approvingly of old Iraqi Communists organizing their poster (and subversion) campaigns, and is suddenly sympathetic when they happen to appropriate some office space. He mentions in passing linking up with a Western leftist group called “CIVIC” (Campaign for Innocent Victims In Conflict) to document civilian casualties from the U.S. invasion that liberated the country.
And this from a person who shows no guilt whatever at his own family membership in a Baathist regime that killed some hundreds of thousands of civilians — entirely on purpose. He dismisses all that as “a few bad apples,” without thinking to volunteer any sort of information on where such bad apples might now be hiding.
He builds a strong case.
(via Occam’s Toothbrush)
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Just read the new Hitchens piece– as always, a must read:
So it turns out that all the slogans of the anti-war movement were right after all. And their demands were just. “No War on Iraq,” they said