Source: Hullabaloo
How about this for a new and relevant liberal argument: anyone who supported the war was a fool or an asshole because it was patently obvious by 2002 that this country was in the hands of an insane megalomaniacal Republican machine and the braindead sycophantic mediawhores who gratefully dined on their droppings. Anyone with half a brain knew that it wasn’t a good idea to give a blank check to crazed power mad freaks to start invading, torturing and killing at their discretion. Most of the world agreed. Not complicated. Not idealistic. Plain. Fucking. Common. Sense.
Digby takes on Richard Cohen’s embarrassingly disingenuous op-ed piece in the WaPo, masquerading as a review of Syriana. Cohen claims that BushCo wasn’t really interested in empire or oil in Iraq; they were simply idealists, wanting “to end the horror of Saddam Hussein and, yes, reorder the Middle East.” The neocons, Cohen admits, were “inept”, “duplicitous”, “awesomely incompetent”, “monumentally ignorant and incurious”, but, down deep, just a bunch of crazy dreamers, hoping for a better world. Then he lays it on the Left for not acknowledging that dream: “The left’s criticism of the war from the very start was too often a porridge of inanities about oil or empire or Halliburton — or isolationism by another name. It was childish and ultimately ineffective.”
Well, Digby will have none of that, thank you very much, Mr. house liberal Cohen: