Surrounded by Fools
Posted by Tom Piatak on August 13, 2008
John Derbyshire, writing at NRO, provides a brilliant summary of the foolishness of neoconservative foreign policy in the wake of the Russian invasion of Georgia, quoting Pat Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War and concluding by writing that “We are governed by fools.”
Well said. However, looking at the rest of the commentary on NRO over Georgia, one can only conclude that, at NRO, Derbyshire is surrounded by fools.
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What are you Tom, some kind of crazy ISOLATIONIST? Don’t you understand that if we don’t stop Putin and he takes over South Ossetia then the dominoes start to fall? First,Abkhazia then Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, finally all of Georgia. Once, Georgia goes can Uzbekistan
be far behind. We must elect McCain only he can stop Putin from taking over the world Do you want your children to grow up eating borscht?
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With the exceptions of Mark Krikorian and John Derbyshire, the people who blog at NRO are hysterical children. And right now, they’re having a hissy fit.
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Actually, borscht can be rather tasty, especially with a
dollop of sour cream.
And, I think the delusionists at the Weekly Standard offer a strong
challenge for gold in the idiotic nonsense finals.
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However, looking at the rest of the commentary on NRO over Georgia, one can only conclude that, at NRO, Derbyshire is surrounded by fools.
And the rest of us are led by them and it isn’t going to get any better after November.
I can only hope that McCain and Obama have something that has the same effect as a “dead girl or a live boy” incident prior to the election.
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