skippy the bush kangaroo: andrew sullivan is converting

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

andrew sullivan is converting

no sexual orientation jokes here, kids, it's more about andrew slowly realizing what a fucking disgrace (his words, not ours) the last six years have been.

firstly, he openly derides awol for calling together the hardly-ever-right wing bloggers into the oval office:

previous war-presidents have gathered opponents into their cabinets, reached out to estranged former allies, engaged in aggressive diplomacy to maximize effectiveness and rallied the whole country for the fight. what does this one do? gets a bunch of right-wing "journalists" into the white house to spread some partisan talking points. what a fucking disgrace this man and his journalistic lackeys are.

and then, he gets down and dirty and explains why he used the "f" bomb: he just saw a movie:

my intemperate language earlier today is informed by my seeing "no end in sight" last night. day after day of observing the inexcusable can render one numb after a while. you can forget the trajectory of the deception and incompetence and recklessness of the last six years, and focus, as we should, on what can be done now, how to make things better in practice, how to rate the options in front of us. but at times, it's worth looking back in anger…

for the united states to invade a country and then allow it to be destroyed - against our interests, against their interests - remains one of the more unforgivable acts of governmental negligence in modern times. it is unthinkable that a group of men with this record should have been re-elected to a local school-board, let alone the leadership of the free world. but, of course, they were. we can pray that somehow, out of this dark, long tunnel, something might be salvaged. but even if it is, it will never detract from the fact that this administration made the most colossal intelligence mistake since pearl harbor, ended two centuries of moral leadership by the united states on the treatment of prisoners of war, sunk what may soon be more than a trillion dollars into creating anarchy in a region where vital interests are at stake, and cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of innocent men, women and children in an occupation of such fathomless negligence it is close to a war crime in itself.

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