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I had the misfortune of seeing Ken Blackwell on teevee, and his basic premise goes roughly that we can't lose, therefore we must keep killing people until they agree with that. Anything else is weakness. Any introspection on our own role in bringing all this on was long ago silenced by fear of being called unpatriotic, anti-American and of "blaming America first". As long as the alternatives to the single-minded exhaustion of our nation and its defenses can be framed as surrender, we will stay this course even when it kill us.
I particularly liked this observation: They answered Bush's 'bring it on' bravado with "No stupid. You bring it on."
Off we charged, half-cocked, flags waving, over the horizon and into the abyss. But we were tall in the saddle.
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