The hatters of freedom, the weak willed and the morally corrupt people that live in this country, rally to the sound of their own deranged nightmares of discontent and failure.
Without these fantasies to drive them to new depths of denial, all the world would see them for what they are, an empty shell. They can not defend themselves as their philosophy has no basis in truth.
They are what they fear most, meaningless.
Myth and meaning ( Powerline )
Peter Wehner, deputy assistant to the president and director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives, successfully takes on four myths about the war in Iraq. The myths are (1) the president misled Americans to convince them to go to war, (2) the Bush administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments, (3) because weapons of mass destruction stockpiles weren't found, Saddam posed no threat, and (4) promoting democracy in the Middle East is a postwar rationalization.
As with most myths, these four are interesting mostly for their origins and important mostly for what they tell about the people who hold and promote them. All four myths tell us that the promoters have little regard for the truth.
In addition, the first two myths are, in part, an attempt by Democrats to compensate for their cynical posture during the run-up to the war. The likes of John Kerry supported an action they didn't really believe in because they feared the political consequences of opposing the war. They now attempt to excuse this outrageous breach of their duty by manufacturing claims that they were misled.
The fourth myth -- that promoting democracy is a post-war rationalization -- strikes me as quite interesting. If those who promote it mean that we would not have taken military action in Iraq merely to promote democracy, they may be correct. If they mean that the administration didn't regard promoting democracy as part of the extremely beneficial things we could accomplish through milit
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