As many of you know by now, Bill Frist’s comments on giving into the Taliban sent the wingnut blogs into self-destruct mode. People like Ace of Spades, Der Commissar, Allahpundit, Rusty, and others were all ready to take a hatchet to the GOP leadership and start over. Many of them were even claiming they’d vote Democrat in 2006.
By now, most of the wingnuts have pulled back from that position, especially since Frist’s weird pseudo-retraction. Only Commissar remains convinced the Republicans should be voted out for abandoning conservative principles.
Before we celebrate the conversion of the masses, let’s examine their deeper explanations of the mutiny.
Ace of Spades clarifies:
If Afghanistan truly cannot be de-Taibanized, it’s time to pull up stakes there and simply begin bombing it as frequently as necessary to kill as many Afghans as possible.
They either reject Talibanism or bin Ladinism or they don’t. They killed 3000 people. Before, one could claim they didn’t know what the Taliban was up to. Now there are no such excuses.
If they still are unwilling to reject the Taliban, let them reap the whirlwind.
After quoting Ace and following it up with an “Amen, brutha,” Rusty completes our transformation into the Roman Empire:
Their entire culture and civilization must be completely wiped off the face of the earth. It was only after millions of civilian casualties and the total wasting of all centers of production that the Germans and the Japanese could be rebuilt in our image.
To quote Gladiator, A people should know when they are conquered. Only after this can we even begin to think of changing their ways.
The impotence of the US military abroad has embarrassed the bloodthirsty wingnuts so much they’re calling openly for full-on genocide. So invested are they in our ability to colonize the rest of the world by force that a single admission of our inability to do so by one of their own has sent them into a murderous temper tantrum.
We should be wary of these feelings. Wingnut blogs can be the canary in the coal mine, and if our failure to subjugate the Muslim world is causing them to agitate for more extreme methods, how long will it take until the administration starts to react the same way?
Hubris? What hubris? As for this:
No sentence better summarizes why I simply can’t read that blog anymore, nor why I’ve changed my mind about whether “chickenhawk” has any merit. “Unwilling” is a moronic choice of descriptor; how willing would Ace be to go up against the kinds of theocrats who hold public executions in soccer stadiums? Just you and a couple buddies, Ace, c’mon! Show your willingness! Attitude is everything!
It’s so “the only battles I’ve known have been D & D battles” I can’t stand it. This is what a reactionary looks like.
My decision and my post had nothing to do with Frist’s remarks. The first I heard of them was when Allah linked to my blog in his post on Frist. If you read my post, you’ll see that there is no mention of Frist. For me, it’s all about Bush, Rummy, and the mess in Iraq.
If America truly cannot be de-Republicanized, it’s time to pull up stakes there and simply begin bombing it as frequently as necessary to kill as many Americans as possible.
They either reject Republicanism or Bushism or they don’t. They killed countless people, started interventionist wars, and lied incessantly to their own citizens, whose safety they took every means to endanger. Before, one could claim they didn’t know what the Republicans were up to. Now there are no such excuses.
If they still are unwilling to reject the Republicans, let them reap the whirlwind.
Oye… they want to bomb innocent poor brown people?
Finally, their true goals have started to emerge.
The Taliban must represent some corporate profit opportunity for the grand old party elite to now find them palatable. As always, us plebians will only know after we see whatever resulting holes are carved out of humanity to line the pockets of a few.
Can you say “Opium Trade”? I knew you could…
Is he referring to the Afghan people or the American people? Cos the Afghans still aren’t conquered, and havent been since they forced Alex the Axe-murderer* to marry one of their harridans.
The American people, OTOH, are showing distinct signs of defeat …
*OK, sarissa, for the detail-oriented
Collective punishment is very popular among sociopaths and Authoritarians. The US has a long and dirty history of inflicting collective punishment on people in countries who refuse to submit to authority. Of course we don’t call it that. We call it the greater good. Faugh.