Amir Tehari reviews the bidding two years after the toppling of Saddam’s brutal regime.
The most ardent advocates of the anti-war case are remnants of the supposedly revolutionary left that, in almost every other case, regard the law as nothing but a bourgeois prop to keep the masses in check. The spectacle of Leninists, Trotskyistes and Maoists beating their chests about the legality of toppling a tyrant is surely a treat for all students of politics.
Indeed.
Victor Davis Hanson comments on the mass Godwinization of contemporary political discourse:
At first glance, all this wild rhetoric is preposterous. Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.
Whatever one thinks of Bush
Victor Davis Hanson comments on the mass Godwinization of contemporary political discourse:
At first glance, all this wild rhetoric is preposterous. Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.
Whatever one thinks of Bush
Victor Davis Hanson comments on the mass Godwinization of contemporary political discourse:
At first glance, all this wild rhetoric is preposterous. Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.
Whatever one thinks of Bush
I pledge that, if the FEC makes any attempt to crack down on on-line political expression, I will increase my political commentary in defiance of them. Massive civil disobediance is the best way to fight this new attempt to shut down public debate.
I pledge that, if the FEC makes any attempt to crack down on on-line political expression, I will increase my political commentary in defiance of them. Massive civil disobediance is the best way to fight this new attempt to shut down public debate.
I pledge that, if the FEC makes any attempt to crack down on on-line political expression, I will increase my political commentary in defiance of them. Massive civil disobediance is the best way to fight this new attempt to shut down public debate.
Here’s another good reason to get out into space, as quickly as possible, and as robustly as possible–we may be past our “extinct by” date.
[Via Alan Boyle]
Fred Siegel has an interesting article on the intellectual vacuity of the postmodern radical left:
Back in the fall of 2003, when Dr. Dean was still riding high in the Presidential primary, I
I wonder what Eugene thinks that Saddam’s punishment should be?