Putting Blame Where It Belongs
I don't agree with everything Christopher Hitchens writes in this piece, but one thing he certainly gets right:
Semiconsciously, though, these tirelessly wicked forces in Iraq are denied any agency of their own, and by a none-too-clever elision, their horrific actions gradually become attributable to the presence of the very force that is fighting against them.
The kind of moral obtuseness that Hitchens critiques is evident in the left's daily discussions of Iraq. It's time to knock it off, and lay the blame where it belongs.
Semiconsciously, though, these tirelessly wicked forces in Iraq are denied any agency of their own, and by a none-too-clever elision, their horrific actions gradually become attributable to the presence of the very force that is fighting against them.
The kind of moral obtuseness that Hitchens critiques is evident in the left's daily discussions of Iraq. It's time to knock it off, and lay the blame where it belongs.
posted by LadybugUSA at 4:22 PM
3 Comments:
Aw, now that's not fair Dittohead. You know as well as I do that the putrid quagmire of Iraq is all our fault.
I'm sorry, world. I'm sorry, America. I'm sorry, Carol. All hail Bush!
I'm sure they're the same wusses who bandy about with "surrender monkey" and "commie" (oops, forgot the "pinko" prefix), "socialist" and "wacko," and "traitor."
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. Wanna help me out, Pete and Flom?
But the fact is that most of the above have been written by none other than the blogger on a number of occasions. So maybe we should "put blame where it belongs."
Cheeky, specious, glib, abusive. What goes around, comes around.
Knock it off, you two -- or find some other site to comment on. Your schtick is getting tiresome. A word to the wise, okay?
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