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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Sunday, June 02, 2002
Has Daddy Warblogs gone wobbly? First, he tells us not to take James Lileks seriously. Well, who does, really?
Second, and more importantly, he questions the invade-the-world mentality adopted by the rest of the warbloggers, Andrew Sullivan in particular: "There's some kind of weird moral slippage going on here, whereby just because it was right to oust the Taleban it's now right to oust anyone and everyone." Well, that's the problem with the War on Terror, isn't it? It's a "new kind of war" with no defined enemy, no timetable and no territorial constraints. Slippage is inevitable.
And while I'm at it, I agree with Daddy Warblogs on all that annoying "rope-a-dope" talk. There is nothing more pathetic than warbloggers inventing excuses for why President Bush said there is no plan to invade Iraq. Lying about an invasion of Iraq in order to lull Saddam into a false sense of security is absurd. Any such invasion would take weeks, if not months, to mount. Saddam would see it coming.