What the Heck was I Thinking!?

James Wolcott posts at his blog that,  

 

"September 11th is a day of mournful remembrance, our annual hurdle of traumatic flashbacks and funeral orations. A somber day, not a saber-rattling one. Yet for the last week or so, the fearmongers and the blog militia have taken the safety catches off their loaded mouths."

I don’t understand why liberals don’t want people to get angry about what was done to the US and to fellow citizens both on Sept 11, 2001, and in other terrorist attacks both before and after that date.

 

Liberals have this knee-jerk reaction to violence that amazes me - It must have been provoked. Don’t get angry, get out of there! 

I like the approach the US is taking right now. Don’t get out, get those bastards! Stop them from ever doing this again to anyone.

The Liberals’ approach to war mirrors their approach to crime. Can’t we all just talk and get along?

No! Some people won’t respond to talk, they’ll just kill again. 

Mr. Wolcott then goes on to heap scorn on any head that pops into his view on the right side. Even the military gets a drive by hit from him, although he shows a deep lack of understanding about the military, the society at large, and who’s really making the decisions.

 

"Western militaries do not have the desire, nor the sanction, to conduct the high casualty operations typically associated with real wars. Technology has been leveraged to increase the precision of attacks to limit collateral damage and save the lives of soldiers. The corollary to this is that western militaries are also fiercely protective of the lives of their soldiers. Warfare, increasingly, is supposed to be costless."

The illogic of this is breath taking. It’s no one’s desire to have high casualties on one’s own side. But the real drive to reduce military casualties is political and societal. Without the support of society, through the political institutions, a military cannot long endure ANY casualties. Osama knows this, Mr. I’m-a-damn-nut-job knows this, Hezbollah and Hamas know this. Liberals apparently don’t get the connection. This is total war, not set piece war on some board somewhere.

 

It’s the liberals who seem to think that this war machine just went off and started something on their own. They want to wash their hands of any association with the government.

Dean Barnett, over at Hugh Hewitt’s Townhall posts a very good piece about the ridiculous argument about who’s braver brought on by Glenn Greenwald. He deals with both the style and substance of the outrageous claims Greenwald makes.

One comment particularly caught my eye. In reference to a similar incident from Mr. Barnett’s youth, he mentions the film, "The Day After." On having said he hadn’t watched the TV film the previous night, but still having a comment to make about the issue, he said,

"I told them that long before last night, the thought of a nuclear holocaust had scared me. I didn’t need a TV movie to reinforce the notion that such an event must not occur. And I had reached my conclusions about how to avoid a nuclear holocaust rationally, rather than emotionally."

The last sentence is important. One of the goals of having courage  is to be able to make decisions rationally, not emotionally. Too often the Left wants emotions to rule the discussion, not intellectual thought.

I guess this means the Dems aren’t the party of FDR anymore either.