LOL! "Split hairs" !!
That's an important declaration, and we should pause a moment to appreciate the incredible irony.
This is what the whole campaign is about, and there is much company in the media.
You are saying the following:
"You are Anti-Bush, therefore IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT YOUR POLICIES ARE"
IOW, if you are for Bush, you are for the war and must accept all reasons set forth from Washington. If not, you are "Anti-Bush", and therefore .... "wrong", I guess is the kindest word.
But it doesn't stop at "wrong". The next impulse by media pundits who are all-Bush all the time is this: anything critical of Bush is "anti-Bush", and ANTI-BUSH PEOPLE ARE (fill in the blank), with the blank being:
a) anti-American is the most cherished claim, since that is one step below arrest, or since "we are in a war", the very possibility is always there in back of the mind (or in the case of Coulter, in print) to justify shooting the offender(s), and there is no more satisfying end to an argument than that, after all.
Never mind if there is any possibility amid the secrecy surrounding 9/11 and contracts that this is a war of conquest or profiteering, that it would be an unparalleled anti-American act.
b) immoral is the next, which has been a powerful assembly for religious right, and commonsense folk (like me), who don't like others to be hypocritical or liars, or lacking in the ability to think straight and subject to being controlled by others behind them.
c) anti-war is next on the list, as a weakness akin to cowardice, never mind proven heroes, generals and MOH winners who are against this war, and never mind the singular lack of military courage of the proponents at the highest levels.
d) liberal is the catch-all next item, confused with "left", and conflated with all manner of the above in a single sentence, up to and including the aforementioned anti-American, and the aforementioned satisfying shot to close the painful argument altogether.
What is missing?
ANY DISCUSSION OF THE MERITS, issues or facts.
Its a downward spiral towards emotionalism, triumphalism, and in the case of media pundits following the dollars, since they'll be fired if they oppose, and rewarded if they go along. Some are even like Hitchens, who spins 180-degrees from a book on Kissinger's war crimes, to get on the gravy train and nestle himself at US taxpayer expense in an Iraqi palace, betraying not the least irony. |
