It’s a shared nation that didn’t even exist at the time many current Iraqis grandfathers were young men. At that early stage in the game, not even many Americans felt much of an allegiance to a shared nation over their local tribe.

If more Americans were aware of this, fewer would be acting so surprised over the “sectarian violence” that’s going on there now.

Americans consistently underestimate the importance of ethnic identity in foreign politics.

Fear it? Oh, heck no! We’re not afraid of that…in fact, that would be just great!!

Oh sure, it would be embarrassing having to admit we were wrong about how the “surge” wouldn’t work and how the Sunnis and Shiites cleave to their tribal loyalties more than their allegiance to a shared nation. That part would totally suck.

But everybody home? And parades too?!?

That would rock!

If you are a wingnut, you can be wrong. Dead wrong. Wrong about everything. Every time you make a decision, take a position, open your mouth you can be wrong.

But, mikey–!! You’re missing the lurking danger in being wingnuttish! The danger that, one day, no matter how hard you try not to be, you may be right!!
Then, all the other wanknutz will summarily excommunicate from the screwball orduré du wingnutte. It’s almost as shameful amongst that lot as being poor.

Or not.

Thus, they come up with gems of non-logic like “Me want US to win. Not-me must want US to lose.”

I’d say that reducing political positions to troglodytic Tarzan-like speech balloons would be gross oversimplification and totally unfair, but the other night three of the fucking dingbat bastards stood on a stage and raised their hands to signify they don’t believe in science, they believe in superstition.

It’s impossible to argue against someone who is trying to force you into defending a position that is, a priori, indefensible. Which is the point, I guess, although the fact that they imagine the American left to be so desperate for power that they would applaud anything that hurts the country just so long as it allows them to grip the levers of gummint so as to dole out goodies to The Faithful says a lot more about the morality of the adherents to such a worldview than it does about any argument they pose.

Or, more simply: “They seem not to understand that worldview is a confession of character.”

And now I’m off to the nice 5-story shopping tower across Tverskaya from Lyubyanka to shoot pictures of the May 9 decorations and buy some tasty Cohibas. Interpret as you wish.

And what exactly are the Democrats doing that is forcing defeat? Selling secrets? Revealing battle plans? Forcing our soldiers to torture the locals?

Worse For their sinister plot the democRats have unleashed an ancient weapon so insidious and terrible that even the most hardend of warriors speak of it in tremulous whispers. I am refering, of course, to the dreaded Nonbinding Resolution, destroyer of worlds.

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Way scarier than clowns.

Compared to that, a mere parade doesn’t even register.

Yep, clowns are evil….

mikey

- pull all the troops out of the field
- parade them around at home
- praise them for coming home undefeated
- claim the troops were stabbed in the back by the opposition party

Im Felde unbeseigt! Der Dolchstoss!

In 2010: neo-flappers!

I would fear an endless series of Volkswagens emitting clowns.
Me too. The childhood memories are repressed, but I think a clown bit me once.

A real defeat would be something like, oh I dunno, the severe weakening of our armed forces by attrition due to a prolonged, pointless involvement in a sovereign nation’s civil war, or something like that.

Noonan knows, deep in his corroded heart, that we’ll have to leave Iraq eventually, and without anything remotely resembling victory. As any fascist knows, however, the only thing better than victory is dolschtoss.

Oh yes, he’s still at it. When he’s not screaming at passing traffic, that is.

You moonbats can mock all you want, but when the Winged Jihadis strike, I’ll be watching* and LMAO from the comfort and safety of Debbie’s bunker. LOOSERS!!!!

*It has a periscope.