Second Thoughts in Both Directions
there’s a sick pretense of attempted honesty being slung for effect by most statists these days. it reveals their shared sadism, hubris, and hatred of others. their love for the all-consuming state has brought all factions of the mob together at last, to hug in their singular stupidity. “hey, we were both wrong. now let’s continue on the same path that brought us here.” funny that they don’t mention the one group that was right all along the way, and continues to be so — the group that respects liberty and recognizes the overwhelming destruction of the state. of course the fools who hitch their passive wagons to the state must always find out they were wrong. shocker. announcement to statists: you’re all bloodthirsty creepers with no respect for others. go wring your fucking worthless hands in private.
michael tottenThe election in Iraq has done to some on the anti-war left what the revelations of torture in Abu Ghraib prison did to others on the hawkish right.
…I protested the Persian Gulf War in 1991 in part because I saw Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait as a fight over oil between two equally nasty regimes. War didn’t seem like the answer. Kuwaitis were going to be lorded over by a dictatorship either way. What difference did it make if the capital was Kuwait City or Baghdad?
I had no idea (though I also had no excuse) that Saddam Hussein replaced Kuwait’s benign and moderate monarchy with a horrific Stalinist police state. I was also blissfully unaware of Saddam’s pan-Arabist imperialist plans. If I had met any Kuwaiti survivors, as Mr. Simmermon met Iraqi survivors, I know I would have felt like a complete and utter moron.
That was fourteen years ago. In the meantime I’ve retroactively changed my mind about the first Gulf War and thrown my support behind the second. Yet the second war rocked my world once again. …
you get the idea.