One can contrast people in many ways: the fat and the thin, the rich and the poor, those who play the tuba and those who don't. In assessing the opinions of our Iraq policy, perhaps the most useful dichotomy is of those who consider the consequences of acts and those who don't.Silly me. Blakley's wagging his edematous finger at "Ted Kennedy and the exit strategy crowd." (Actually, I think it's larger than just a crowd. Bigger even than a mob.)
Blakley's exhortation "to end the anger and start thinking rationally about a successful future in Iraq" features much drivel about developmental psychology -- well, the man's gotta hit his word count.
According to Blakley, the exit strategy crowd is suffering from arrested development. This unintentionally ironic paragraph is suitable for framing:
It is a well-established principle of developmental psychology that young children have no sense of cause and effect. They live in a magical world in which things just seem to happen. They don't understand that if you pull a gun's trigger, a bullet will come out. They don't even understand the finality of death. Things just seem to appear, disappear and re-appear.Tony, Tony, Tony -- you're making this too easy.
►They have no sense of cause and effect.
You mean like starting a war without provocation in Iraq and turning the place into the world's largest terrorist training camp?
►They live in a magical world in which things just seem to happen.
You mean like the most astonishing mutually enabling group of the incompetent, the corrupt, and the mendacious taking control of the world's lone superpower?
►They don't understand that if you pull a gun's trigger, a bullet will come out.
You mean like not knowing that once you bomb critical civilian infrastructure you can't unbomb it?
►They don't understand the finality of death.
You mean other than their own and the ones they love?
►Things just seem to appear, disappear, and re-appear.
Good God, Tony, you mean like weapons of mass destruction?
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