<p>I the middle of a Keillor column warning Reopublicans not to follow Bush down the path to war, I found this surprising admission:
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<p>I the middle of a Keillor column warning Reopublicans not to follow Bush down the path to war, I found this surprising admission:
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<p>For those who don’t go to the link and read the quote in context, here’s what follows:</p>
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And now something similar is happening to Republicans. They are following the Current Occupant down a road that will be disastrous to them for years to come. They are defending the indefensible. If they could put forth a few more truth tellers like Sen. Chuck Hagel, they could spare us from further disaster, such as the long-rumored forthcoming attack on Iran, a military adventure that this country cannot afford. The same people who got us stuck in one mess are planning another one. Seymour Hersh’s excellent articles in The New Yorker point toward that in a particularly authoritative way. </p>
<p>It is a time for some patriots to rise above politics and behave like a jury. The political scrum is boisterous and tribal and fun for one and all, but what is needed now is sobriety of the sort that you and I would bring to a criminal trial. You sit in the jury box and make yourself focus on the facts. Ignore the rhetoric, don’t buy into the story line you’re offered: Your decision will have painful consequences, so be wise.</p>
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<p>whatever follows, fine, but to defend mccarthy> egad</p>
<p>Meanwhile, back at the ranch:</p>
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<p><a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/05/07/us_general_says_iraq_will_get_deadlier/[/url]”>http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/05/07/us_general_says_iraq_will_get_deadlier/</a></p>
<p>I thought the mission not-accomplished defenders defined “only” 58 Iraqis dead as progress.</p>
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<p>I admire Keillor for saying this. And if more liberals embraced this kind of thinking, and if conservatives/Republicans could similarly see and admit to their own past follies and begin to understand that liberals are not all unpatriotic fools and that some of liberal/Democratic initiatives have been wonderful for the country, the level of political emnity on both sides that is poisoning this country could be vastly reduced. We could then find a lot more common ground and get on with improving this country for the common good instead of solely for the good of “my side.”</p>
<p>coureur–
as our kids would say, word up.</p>
<p>Well put, Coureur. The knee-jerk “If your team is for it, it must be bad” mentality is writ large in American political folly, today as ever.</p>
<p>Perhaps Mr Keillor needs to revisit Neville Chamberlain as well. You don’t avoid disaster by trying to appease enemies that, “want to kill you more than you want to live.” What exactly is indefensible about that?</p>
<p>Only 9 posts to the Hitler reference! A new CC record?</p>