Freedom not so much marching as kneeling

[ebonlock]

Uh-oh, you know the GOP is in trouble when even the hackiest of their hacks has started refusing the Kool Aid:

For what it’s worth, this is where I get off the bus. The principal mission of the so-called “war on terror” – which is actually a war on militant Islam – is to destroy the capacity of the international network of jihadists to project power in a way that threatens American national security. That is the mission that the American people continue to support.
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Now, if several reports this weekend are accurate, we see the shocking ultimate destination of the democracy diversion. In the desperation to complete an Iraqi constitution – which can be spun as a major step of progress on the march toward democratic nirvana – the United States of America is pressuring competing factions to accept the supremacy of Islam and the fundamental principle no law may contradict Islamic principles.
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But even if I suspended disbelief for a moment and agreed that the democracy project is a worthy casus belli, I am as certain as I am that I am breathing that the American people would not put their brave young men and women in harm’s way for the purpose of establishing an Islamic government. Anyplace.

Whoopsie. Undoubtedly this piece was in response to this:

The United States has eased its opposition to an Islamic Iraqi state to help clinch a deal on a draft constitution before tonight's deadline.

American diplomats backed religious conservatives who threatened to torpedo talks over the shape of the new Iraq unless Islam was a primary source of law. Secular and liberal groups were dismayed at the move, branding it a betrayal of Washington's promise to advocate equal rights in a free and tolerant society....

According to Kurdish and Sunni negotiators, the US ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, proposed that Islam be named "a primary source" and supported a wording which would give clerics authority in civil matters such as divorce, marriage and inheritance....

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Comments

[ebongreen.livejournal.com]

Would it be appropriate at this point to mention the nation's elephant-in-the-room: "Why wouldn't the American people support an Islamic theocracy overseas when they seem so determined to support establishing a Christian theocracy here?"

Dumbass - he voted for the Prick-in-Chief and his gang, and he's surprised by this? Wake up and smell the baptismal font; better late than never, but only if we're darned lucky.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Thing is on some level I truly think they didn't believe the fundies on "their side" would ever attain as much power as they have. On the plus side, at least they are starting to wake up to the internal threat. Better late than never.