I Apologize

I once lumped Roger L Simon in with LittleGreenFootballs and Junkyardblog as extreme conservative. This was from a posting at metafilter of some people calling the writer of "Where is Raed" an Iraqi spy. That was also based on his support for the Iraq war and a hasty reading of a few entries in his blog.

Spotting his objection on google over two months later I had to read more. Well, he has also just resented being called liberal. I now have him placed as eccentric but talented and probably still going through a bad war-hawk phase.

Like a few other people I know, he is twisted between the Republican's domestic policy and the Democrat's foreign policy because he seems to be getting all of what he thinks are facts from the conservative side. he definitely seems to be getting their spin.

Can we reconcile his positions on increased funding for public education, some form of national health insurance, gay marriage, etc. with his wanting an aggressive foreign policy and bring him back to the Democrats? Or maybe it is all an image problem with Daschle and most national Democratic leaders being absolute wimps?

Except for the three liberals running, Sharpton, Moseley-Braun and Kucinich, all the of the Democrats want a powerful military. (Too powerful, we are going to be spending more than the next most powerful 30 countries this year, but that's me. With that big a military why don't we just start invading countries that aren't a threat to us? Oops, we already have.)

I don't know, I still think the solution is education - they lied, Iraq didn't have the weapons or the links to Al Qaeda - and giving the Republicans Hell back and educating them how better off we all would be under almost anyone but Bush.

I had to comment on his recent blog:

"Democratic Party (presently ruled by some morally-limited clown named Dean who responds to the death of the genocidal Hussein Brothers by wondering whether the ends justify the means)?"

You think Dean rules the Democratic party when he is being attacked from all other candidates and the DLC establishment?

And you think these Dean statements are morally clownish?

"It's a victory for the Iraqi people but it doesn't have any effect on whether we should or shouldn't have had a war."

Or another source: "It doesn't have any effect on whether we should or shouldn't have had a war. I think in general the ends do not justify the means."

I can remember the debate during Vietnam over wiping out a village of civilians because some were Vietcong we were saving it from. Which side did you come down then on if the ends justified the means?

In the 80's, Republicans were terrified of Iran and sold Saddam the ingredients for chemical weapons and then the delivery systems and satellite photos for using them. Did those ends justify the means?

Later, I have noticed I have been much grumpier lately. This started even before the last week when my health has been bothering me. It doesn't seem like much to downgrade him from "extreme conservative" to someone going through a "warhawk phase." I recognize that and I think I'll have more essays on why I'm angry, I'm grumpy, and I seem to take it out more on folks who should be on our side but have been seduced by the dark side.