Skookumchuk

They aren’t wearing Zarqawi t-shirts the way they used to wear Che t-shirts. Or still wear Che t-shirts. And that might be significant

I was about to make this point when I saw you already got there.

I don’t have the sense that any but the extreme left is actively identifying with the “Patriots” of Iraq & the ME; I certainly don’t see it around me, and I have a ringside seat.

The problem is status quo, realist, quasi-appeasement thinking.

The problem is also, I think, an opposition between the Elites and the people.

In the run-up to the war I noticed that lots of Elite-types were bailing on Bush. Sullivan, Drezner, Chafetz—-lots of them.

That’s a major theme of BORN FIGHTING: the Scots-Irish loathe elites, always have and always will.

When my sweet English Grandma was courting my Scots-Irish Grandpa back around 1917 or so

OK, that’s one!

Well, 3 counting me & Richard M.