Congrats America

Your war plan is being run by Rich Lowry, 38 years old and still of prime "fighting the war of ideas over here" age.

That's right, this Rich Lowry:

And what is the the greatest military thinker since Clausewitz (Jonah Goldberg pronounces it "Claws-wits") advice on this war?

I know I'm naïve... [Rich Lowry]
...but wouldn't the honorable thing be for the Democrats as a party basically to say, "This administration has made tragic mistake after tragic mistake in Iraq. We oppose this surge. We don't think it will work. But we really, really hope it does work. We will give it a year and anything we can do at the margins to help make it work, we will."

The politics would probably even make sense with the broader public, since the Democrats would get the credit for opposing the surge if it doesn't work, while seeming surpassingly bi-partisan and high-minded in the meantime. But, of course, I'm naïve. We are way beyond this being a possibility for all sorts of reasons, including that the Democratic base would go crazy. Never mind...
Posted at 5:15 PM

You are not only naive, you are fucking stupid.

Lowry is Exhibit A of how a person clearly incompetent and consistently, and dangerously, wrong, can somehow make it into the conservative grist mill and given access to media market as if they were a sage bearing profound wisdom.

This is all part of the larger cycle of Right-Wing pomposity and imbecility being given a pass; look at how Spocko's situation will play out. There will be no tangible punishment of any kind given the likes of Melanie Morgan. Rather, they will turn it into a ratings bananza and turn the tables and claim they are instead VICTIMS. Hatred is their creed, it is all that matters that they sufficiently hate and sufficiently want to bomb the ill-defined person of darker complexion. It's the kind of system that allows a thrice-divorced drug addict and a perverted sexual harasser to be given the right to be moral arbiters.