Fearless on my breath...

This post by TBogg is a must read, he eviscerates Michelle Malkin's latest spewing wherein she equates herself to a "lion" and Cindy Sheehan and Sally Fields to a "lamb". It's both infuriating and heartbreaking. My favorite commenter replies thusly:

For all of Michelle's boasting of being a lion mother, hers is nothing but posturing and false bravado.

There is nothing brave about firing a pistol at a poster of Osama bin Laden on the anniversary of 9/11 or wearing a t-shirt that reads "I Will Not Submit" in the safe confines of her Maryland suburban community.

What Michelle Malkin does not get is that dealing with the problem of jihadist terrorism requires nuanced responses. Bombing people in Iraq or Afghanistan might satisfy one's need for revenge for 9/11 or prejudice against Muslims, but it does nothing to solve the problem we face. [ed. note: indeed it has made the problem worse by several orders of magnitude]

This war will ultimately not be won by the United States military but by an emerging moderate Muslim majority that accepts tolerance and pluralism. In order to do that, we must reach out to them and show them that they have a stake in living in peaceful coexistence with us. And this is something that the Michelle Malkins of the world just seem incapable of understanding.

Tommykey

There 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.