Vern, Frank’s words and tone are the evidence. Isn’t that obvious? “Stupid,” “complete ignorance,” “stupid,” again, the oh-so-spooooooky “very radical con evangelists and Neocons,” “failing in one affair after another” with even Afghanistan (or “Afghan,” as this savvy world geographer says) in the count – why, the only things missing are references to the President’s being a drunk, a deserter, and/or a chimp.
The rhetoric on my side of the aisle can get trite, true; but I don’t think we’re quite the (anti-)personality cultists that our esteemed opponents are at present.
Dan F. does better by at least wanting to fight the fight; I think he’s absolutely wrong that (everybody now) “Iraq is a distraction” (and, yes, I know it’s not a quotation from Dan; it’s a restatement of the meme that’s been floating around since the early days of Iraq), since a moderate, democratic, vast-majority Muslim nation smack in the middle of the Middle East and interrupting supply lines in all directions would be, IMHO, a giant step toward ending state support of terrorism in that region. That doesn’t even take into account the relatively intangible but no less important benefit of demonstrating to the world that this single superpower still is one: that we’re still the same country who said “Nuts!” to a demand for surrender.
