If You Liked "Flypaper Theory," You’ll *Love* Endless Civil War…
By Shorter Verbatim Stephen Green: “If we’re looking at an Islamic civil war, then vast numbers of good people will die, from Libya to Oman. Luckily, they won’t have to be our people. In the very worst-case scenario, the Middle East could blow up — and we could bug out, pronto.” This is the good news?” you ask. Yes, and I’ll explain why.”
I love the last paragraph too. “Sure, you were completely right about everything, but…we won a narrow victory in 2004 Presidential elections based on the utterly fallacious premise that the Iraq war would bring stable liberal democracy to the Middle East!” Now that the strategy of shouting “who won the election? Nyah Nyah?” when you’re thoroughly dismembered in an argument on the merits has migrated from reactionary commenters to major reactionary bloggers there really should be a term in the Wingnut Debate Dictionary for it, but I can’t come up with a snappy name off-hand…
(via TBogg.)