I am so sick of these...(warning profanity)

[ProSense]

fucking twits who speak about weakness while they jerk off to the thought of war in some back room! George Will has a lesson for liberals and quotes the obsessively self-fondlng, tiny-dick, cheney-loving Beinhart to make his point:

Beinart briskly says "I was wrong" in supporting the invasion of Iraq. Wrong about Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Wrong in being "too quick to give up on containment." Wrong about the administration's competence to cope with the war's aftermath. ("Staffers tasked with postwar reconstruction were told to bring two suits. They would be home by the end of summer.") Denouncing conservatives for waging a "war of hubris and impatience," Beinart says that "George W. Bush has faithfully carried out the great conservative project. He has stripped away the restraints on American power, in an effort to show the world that we are not weak. And in the process, he has made American power illegitimate, which has made us weak." Because "the more proactive America wanted to be, the stronger international institutions had to become."

But while excoriating the Bush administration for perhaps "creating exactly the condition the conservatives have long feared: An America without the will to fight," Beinart's most important contribution is to confront the doughface liberals who rejoice about the weakening of that will. Reading liberals who seem to think they "have no enemies more threatening, or more illiberal, than George W. Bush," Beinart worries that Deaniac liberals are taking over the Democratic Party much as McGovernite liberals did after 1968. He discerns the "patronizing quality" of many liberals' support for John Kerry in 2004: They "weren't supporting Kerry because he had served in Vietnam. They were supporting him because they believed other , more hawkish, voters would support him because he had served in Vietnam."

Beinart worries that "the elections of 2006 and 2008 could resemble the elections of 1974 and 1976, when foreign policy exhaustion, and Republican scandal, propelled Democrats to big gains." If so, those gains will be "a false dawn." The country will eventually turn right because, "whatever its failings, the right at least knows that America's enemies need to be fought."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901525.html

Beinhart has taken to whoring cheap defense of neocon ideology. I suggest he get major fucking counseling!

[TayTay]

1. How very, very TNR of him.

And we all know that The New Republic hated John Kerry. They haven't learned a damn thing. Friggin war-mongering bastids.

What a day! Motherf*ckers to the left of me, motherf*ckers to the right of me, here I am, stuck in the middle with you (guys.) Sigh!

[karynnj]

2. Except,

strangely the only way to parse this as to what Beinhart would think is the correct position for the Democrats would be that they need to reject the Deaniacs, McGovernites etc and pick someone who would defend this country. Has he said what he would recommend for getting out of this mess that he and his fellow neo-cons created?

If he wants some who can credibly say he would defend the nation - but that he thinks war should be rare, and a last resort, there are very few credible people. Kerry is likely the best on the Democratic side.

As to Will - he's seeing the result of Republican hubris. They have close to everything they ever wanted and it's falling apart.

[ProSense]

3. If that's what Beinhart

wants, but he doesn't. He wants war. He is no different from Bill Kristol in that regard. It's not about defense, it's about aggression.