Gilliard

Wingnuts wonder why we on the left complain so much about reprehensible behaviors committed by Americans and so little about the awful things done by the terrorists. The reason we do so is that we prefer the evil and the idiocy to be on the other side, and not on ours. Thus, we’re unusually harsh against the worst behavior of people on our side.

The same thing goes for the blogosphere. Powerline and LGF regularly commit blog atrocities, but I don’t really care because I expect idiocy from them. I’ll occasionally link to a particularly egregious post, but for the most part I expect that kind of behavior.

This is the most reprehensible piece of garbage that I have read in the blogosphere in quite some time. Steve Gilliard has launched an unprovoked personal attack against Erik Loomis for suggesting that opposing and immediate withdrawal from Iraq does not necessitate running to the nearest recruiting office and joining the US Army.

Erik,

You are a coward. No matter how you sum it up, or explain it away, you are a coward. You support a war you are unwilling to fight in, and that is cowardice.

That Erik is a former guest blogger at LGM, a friend of this blog, and a dear personal friend on mine only adds insult to injury. This is just about the stupidest goddamn argument I have ever seen a major blogger on the left make. That Gilliard’s commenters can’t manage to see this does them no credit.

More later. My rage has not subsided.