Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Swift Currents
Wretchard at The Belmont Club today demonstrates yet again why his is a site that must be bookmarked, and read every chance you get. With the pace of events in the Middle East accelerating almost wildly, perspective is everything. Few do it better than Wretchard.
Besides his analysis, he provides another great service to us in today's post: linking recent columns by Mark Steyn and Christopher Hitchens. I had wanted to do just that on Tuesday, when Steyn's piece appeared; we are all the better that I did not and that Wretchard does so.
We live in interesting times. It is no longer possible, if indeed it ever was, to sit and cynically count body bags, or scream "quagmire" or "no WMD." Events, both frightening and heartening, are making the divide between rational debate and dead-end irrationalism so wide as now to be perfectly irreconcilable. Those that by choice or predilection continue sputtering the cliches of the anti-war left look more and more like a small band that is stranded on an iceberg that fell away from the greater ice cap. They are adrift at sea, their footing giving way as currents carry them into warmer waters. Their Kool-Aid having run out, they are left to drinking salt water.
Go read Belmont.
UPDATE: Austin Bay writes at Strategy Page (h/t Instapundit):
Besides his analysis, he provides another great service to us in today's post: linking recent columns by Mark Steyn and Christopher Hitchens. I had wanted to do just that on Tuesday, when Steyn's piece appeared; we are all the better that I did not and that Wretchard does so.
We live in interesting times. It is no longer possible, if indeed it ever was, to sit and cynically count body bags, or scream "quagmire" or "no WMD." Events, both frightening and heartening, are making the divide between rational debate and dead-end irrationalism so wide as now to be perfectly irreconcilable. Those that by choice or predilection continue sputtering the cliches of the anti-war left look more and more like a small band that is stranded on an iceberg that fell away from the greater ice cap. They are adrift at sea, their footing giving way as currents carry them into warmer waters. Their Kool-Aid having run out, they are left to drinking salt water.
Go read Belmont.
UPDATE: Austin Bay writes at Strategy Page (h/t Instapundit):
I don't believe in happy endings, merely a respite before the next struggle, However, this Millennium War has reached and passed a crucial midpoint. All but the most recalcitrant, calcified and now laughable naysayers in the West suddenly recognize the pragmatism of American idealism.
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