A Sure Sign of a Demagogue…
…is the ability to adopt any position that reflects poorly on your opponents, regardless of whether said position contradicts your previous stances. With a mixture of amusement and disgust, then, I note for the record that it is quite impossible for the following two facts to coexist:
(1) George W. Bush has no intention of allowing real democracy in Iraq to flourish; only elections that result in a government acceptable to the U.S. will be permitted; and
(2) George W. Bush’s ‘hand-picked stooges’ fail to win said elections.
That doesn’t seem to stop the gloating over such stories as the lack of success of Ahmad Chalabi in various parts of the ‘progressive’ punditsphere. The ability to hold two contradictory ideas as equally valid in one’s mind is said in some quarters to be a sign of insanity…
Partisan sniping aside, though, isn’t the fact that there are protests in Iraq, and political upsets, and negotions over the makeup of a new government a good thing? In fact, isn’t it an absolutely, breathtakingly moving and marvelous thing? Patience is our greatest friend at the moment. I’ll repeat a sentiment I’ve shared before: Iraq need not have a government in love with America, it merely needs a government in love with freedom…
Both can certainly be true and they add up to: Bush = Failure.
Let’s see, economy dramtically improved and chugging along – check, Iraq completes three elections with high participation – check, Iraq moving steadily toward democracy, with some setbacks but all together making forward progress – check, Syria out of Lebanon – check, Egypt and Saudi Arabia instituting some liberal election reforms – check, Afghanistan, like Iraq, making historic progress toward democracy – check.
Not only that, but he’s a moron and an evil genius. He is inarticulate but also able to fool the American electorate into voting for him. His intellect is vastly inferior to the likes of Kennedy, Kerry, Daschle, Reid, and Pelosi, yet he was able to snooker them into voting to go to war in Iraq.
Yeah, that George W. Bush sure is a failure.
It’s DoubleThink, baby and it is NOT optional for the antis. It is a requisite. Luckily it is an exhausting enterprise. It burns the candle at both ends, in the middle and puts the whole contraption in the oven at 350F.