Good Try, Moquol

Moquol is a bit put out by my comments in this post:

Second, I took the time to think about about Scott's post: I had actually been worried that my own predictions of civil war in Iraq (actually, I haven't "predicted" anything--I've said repeatedly that the civil war has already started), and repeated postings about the violence there, might be seen by some as unseemly. So I pondered, and I didn't post much about the unabated violence over the past couple weeks, because civil war in Iraq is just one of my "predictions" that I hope is completely wrong, along with my "predictions" that Democrats are hopelessly inept, that there are no good Republicans, that the presidency of George W. Bush will be seen by future historians as the turning point from America as world power to America as geopolitical also-ran.

So, if the civil war is already occurring, why did the MSM get all giddy by the mosque bombing?

So we all have this straight; there's currently civil war in Iraq and America is a geopolitical also-ran. Cheery news. He continues:

So I don't really know what it is that has me here at my desk talking about this now, on this fine morning after the storm in St. Louis--maybe it was last night's peppers, maybe it was fitful tornado dreams, maybe it was Baby Doc waking up every time it thundered. But in any event, here I am, to speak to Scott at Environmental Republican in language I'm sure he understands: go fuck yourself.

You should've put an exclamation point at the end, buddy. It would've made an emphatic point. Maybe it was your kid waking up every hour or maybe it was just a Monday morning, but whatever the case, you had to result to that, the final refuge of the beaten. Sad, really. I expect more from the left...nevermind, no I don't. He continues:

Because see, this is one of those traps Republicans and their pliant media set for Democrats: if you question them on foreign policy, you're un-American, and if you question the results of their policy, you're an un-American ghoul. If you point out that they've failed, you're accused of not supporting the troops, and if you point this out strongly, you're accused of "getting political glee out of bad things happening."

The "pliant media" that was waiting with baited breath for the civil war proper to get going. Sorry for them but the Iraqi's remained calm for the most part.

You see buddy, I don't know you so I would never say you are un-American. I will say that some of ther points you make tend to the side of hoping for bad things to happen if it means the hard left gains political points. Where is the failure? If you read the "pliant media" you see nothing but. But if you read from folks such as Michael Yon or Michael Totten, you see that things are not quite as bad as you think. But as you say earlier in the post "I read hardly anything that comes out over there (on the right)."

What is the cause of such anger you ask?

Far better, I guess, to get "political glee out of" a prurient fascination with other people's sex lives, out of demonizing the weak and the marginalized, out of hateful jingoism, out of doing whatever you're told to do by your corporate masters and religious mullahs, out of throwing sick and wounded veterans out in the streets, out of taking food off the tables of poor people, out of stealing from schools, out of diverting huge tax windfalls to insurance, oil, and pharmaceutical companies, out of the idolization of a president who likes to play soldier like a little boy, out of racism, out of greed, out of domestic and economic policies that pit citizens against corporations and all citizens against each other, out of brute-level stupidity, out of cheap recrimination, out of destroying the environment, out of, with every policy and idea, increasing the gap between rich and poor and rich and middle class, out of intimidation and thuggery. Because that's what I've seen Republicans getting political glee out of for the past five years.

Instead of answering all the marxist rhetoric put out in one long, runon sentence, I will answer a few points:

First, if our left-wing hero had read anymore of my site than the post he took issue with, he may have noticed that I support civil unions. As that is the topic he led off with, I imagine that is his biggest concern. As for the rest; well I do own a business and am for tax cuts. I guess since I'm a corporate honcho I better get in line for my cut of the windfall.

I am anti-union so I guess that won't sit well with old Che Guevera and I do believe in a free market. He must have missed the part in his talking points where he slams Israel. You have to pay better attention next time, amigo.

...But it also makes me want to try to find some shred of truth and tell it, and if that makes my "existence" "pathetic," far better, I think, than being a useless tool of fear-mongers, war-pimps, and criminal incompetents.

You want truth? Read here, here, here, here and here. It'll be more truth than you can handle. Don't fear, it has the bad, but it also has the good and the inspirational. Those sites have so much truth that your head just may explode. But judging from this post, you don't want truth, you want exactly what I said: bad things for our troops.

As a veteran myself (no chickenhawk here) I tend to believe what others who have either been to Iraq and Afghanistan or are currently there have to say over the "pliant media" anyway.

Better luck next time.