Thus, the Kagan/Kristol/Krauthammer war propagandists continue to say whatever they have to say in order to find a way to stay in Iraq forever. Our Serious Beltway pundits continue to embrace that reasoning because staying is the only way to avoid the reality of how wrong they were.
That's exacly right, and add Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, and all the others getting this propagandizing done for them. Leaving Iraq is "cowardly," it's "losing," it's "capitulation to the worst enemy ever," it's "bad for Iraqis," it's "bad for Muslims," it's "bad for the economy," it "sends the wrong message to the troops" even talking about it, it's bad bad bad bad bad... The truth is, it's bad for them. They have nothing left when they don't have this war. This war or another one. It's the only bit of government potential that actually interests them. Actually doing the business of simply running a country is like dishwashing to them, and is the reason they never belonged in governement in the first place.
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And the disconnect between what Americans want and think, and what our government (and the "small but powerful" faction that controls it) does, continues to grow without any end in sight. On the most crucial issues faced by this country, nothing matters less to the Kagans and the Fred Hiatts (and, increasingly, to many disturbingly tepid Congressional Democrats) than the views of Americans. Within that disconnect lies most of the sicknesses ailing our political culture.
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