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Jan. 18th, 2007 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ebonlockThere are spankings and then there are SPANKINGS, and poor Dinesh D’Souza was left sniffling and teary-eyed after Stephen Colbert administered the paddling of a lifetime to his backside.
And from the "The Stupid, it Burns!" file, I present Richard Cohen:
When politicians and commentators detail all that the Bush administration did wrong, I wonder whether any of it really matters. Would things have turned out differently if we had done everything right? Was Iraq so “broken” we never could have fixed it? Was Hussein’s despotism an avoidable tragedy, or was it, instead, a tragic necessity? I wonder about all these things. I tend to think now we never could have made it work.
Now, of course, everyone looks like an idiot. Bremer was an idiot and Garner was an idiot and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Cheney and all the generals, with the exception of Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, who called for lots and lots of troops and was sidelined. But these men are not really idiots. They were merely wrong, sometimes on account of arrogance, but they were doing what they thought was the right thing. They simply didn’t know what they didn’t know. They didn’t know a damned thing about Iraq.
Now I don't know about you guys, but it would seem Mr. Cohen is the very definition of a useful idiot.
And from the "The Stupid, it Burns!" file, I present Richard Cohen:
When politicians and commentators detail all that the Bush administration did wrong, I wonder whether any of it really matters. Would things have turned out differently if we had done everything right? Was Iraq so “broken” we never could have fixed it? Was Hussein’s despotism an avoidable tragedy, or was it, instead, a tragic necessity? I wonder about all these things. I tend to think now we never could have made it work.
Now, of course, everyone looks like an idiot. Bremer was an idiot and Garner was an idiot and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Cheney and all the generals, with the exception of Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, who called for lots and lots of troops and was sidelined. But these men are not really idiots. They were merely wrong, sometimes on account of arrogance, but they were doing what they thought was the right thing. They simply didn’t know what they didn’t know. They didn’t know a damned thing about Iraq.
Now I don't know about you guys, but it would seem Mr. Cohen is the very definition of a useful idiot.
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Date: 2007-01-19 03:50 am (UTC)I've even heard that talentless-piece-of-shit-excuse-for-a-human-being, Nancy Grace from CNN has a book out. Who is giving these sweet (meaning the backing of the publisher's promotion department) book deals out to idiots?
It boggles the mind.