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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (142063)7/30/2004 1:08:14 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
I was definitely needling him, but that doesn't make the outburst less bizarre. In other words, I agree that I provoked him, but his reaction was still weird.

I think it's John Kerryitis. For decades the Democrats have looked down on people who voluntarily went to war. Now, it's fashionable again to have served. So they're experiencing cognitive dissonance sort of like Kerry's own cognitive dissonance.

Kerry simultaneously admires himself and his friends for being war heroes, but thinks people who served in Vietnam were war criminals. He, himself, committed acts that he would call war crimes if others committed them. So he compartmentalizes the conflict, but you can't compartmentalize conflicts like that without losing your mind just a little.

c can't simultaneously say "I am a moral agent who does not succumb to depravity and evil" and "all men are capable of evil and will commit evil if given the chance." They are mutually exclusive. He, and Kerry, are very confused.
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