Hitchens is absolutely right that paranoia can lead to disastrous follies, and crackpottery to violence. But do you know what else has often led to folly, disaster, violence and human misery? The “moderation” and “centrism” of the Western governing class. It wasn’t Glenn Beck who mired the United States in two neverending overseas occupations, where “gun brandishing” is the least of the everyday horrors that flow from our policy failures.On the one hand I wish to LOL at Ross Douthat and on the other, um, well done moderate centrists.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The Vicious Bloodlust of Moderate Centrism
Ross Douthat:
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The first reaction of these bloviators is to lie. He is saying that moderate centrists got them into the wars? Rumsfeld, Cheney Wolfowitz the mod. centrists. And Dontdouthat reckons he is different from them...
Is that some Christmas Ale I see before me? Inject it into my eye, please nurse.
The fact that he has a paying gig at the Paper of Record makes me want to hurl a bottle.
He is getting abused in comments. And probably by his priest.
David Brooks is worse, but of course that is no consolation.
I love S,N!'s characterization.
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That is indeed a great picture.
Oooh the comments were not kind!!
Hah Hah
Er Mr McG the capcha is Talban, cover is slipping...
Anyone can point out how things are bad. One would think it wouldn't be that much harder, especially for someone who is Reasonable™ and who has earned (?) a plum opinionator gig, to imagine how things could be much worse.
Never thought I'd hear a leftist critique of establishment liberalism from Ross Fucking Douthat. Not that he really means it.
For "moderate centrists", please read "Hillary Clinton/Joe Lieberman/DLC/etc.", who really are responsible for letting the war happen as much as Wolfowitz/Cheney/Perle.
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