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Entry: Thanks to the Neocons Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/thanks_to_the_neocons#68 Post contents: No, as far as I can tell, the Left's opposition to Bush is still mindless. Like some robot who is programmed to take the opposite view. The war is wrong and the left (who didn't push democrats or liberals when it might have mattered) happen to be right only in the sense that a stopped clock and a sundial will agree at least once every day. But the reason I consider the left still mindless are such examples as Texas now mandating STD vaccinations. So they will drag young girls kicking and screaming "But it's MY body!" into the nurses office where they will be forcefed the vaccine. What next, comatose female patients in hospices (if they aren't starved to death first)? Oh, and the person advocating this utter lack of choice was from an organization called "NOW". I do know quite a few rational and reasonable women, so I must put this down to liberalism. But to return to the war, during the 8 years of the Clinton administration, we could have dismantled the hundreds of bases of our empire's archipelago, and made the "peace dividend" something real and such that it would keep on giving, but didn't. And they were all but silent when we were blowing up bridges and the passenger trains crossing them in Serbia. Hence my point that the left is merely a compass with a reversed polarity magnet. And go further - how much of the left is complaining about the expansion of executive power? No one is suggesting lowering that. It is like a perpetual lotto where the jackpot of increasing and tyrannical power never grows smaller, so when the next democrat wins, they can send anti-abortion activists to GITMO with the "enemy combatant" rubber-stamp. I do remember at the first Clinton inaugural, that when the jets flew over someone said "they are OUR jets now". The left can stare into the mirror and see what happens when hubris meets power, but don't realize that it is a mirror and merely a reflection of what they would do (and have done) themselves. Hagel is an exception, but most senators are merely dead fish that simply go with the stream of public opinion. Since the public is a roiling mass, you have eddies and whirlpools and rip-tides, a particular fish might go opposite but it will be with their part of the stream. Again, you see the republicans caving in when Brokaw, Rather, and Jennings complained about the government shutdown. Then when Bush shouted fire loud enough in the theater of the absurd which is DC, the democratic deadfish went along. (or maybe slightly higher life-forms, the line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail comes to mind - "She turned me into a Newt!"; but lacking the sotto voce "I got better" as there has been no signs of a recovery). On Chomsky, everything I needed to know about his true nature were revealed in the last sentence in the audiobook version of his latest writing: "Copyright 2006, the Chomsky Grandchildren Trust". Not that he would want himself, his estate, or his grandchildren to have to pay the taxes for what he advocates. I hope the offspring enjoy their limousines. Sent at: 2008 07 24