"What is it you expected from the beginning? That we’d have this thing done in two hours, so you could run to the fridge and grab a coke? That’s not a failing of President Bush, Mr. Dreher, it’s a failure in the depth of your thought.
And, now, your judgment, to record what, albeit it in monotone, is no less than an anti-war, anti-Bush screed for NPR, empowering them to pimp you out as this day’s useful idiot suggests that if you had anything to do with decision making in Iraq, things would be worse.
Fine, Mr. Dreher … you’ve jumped the warship, you’re out on your own. Please have the sense, the courtesy, the human decency to go sink to the bottom alone somewhere. While brave Americans are still fighting and dying for a necessary cause, those of us out here in the real world with experience and stamina have just that much more rowing to do, now – and still miles to go before we rest.
Go read or write a book, or something. You certainly don’t have what it takes to fight, or even help fight a difficult war. With benefit of hindsight, I’m forced to assume you never really did," – Dan Riehl, discussing Rod Dreher’s recent essay.
The post is almost a clinical exhibit in the hard right’s lamentable disposition to attack viciously anyone who dares question Bush administration orthodoxy.
The Dish 