Deja Vu All Over Again
No Blood for Hubris dissects the standard media apologists's response whenever something rotten and squirming is found in the core of Bush's apple:
If it's not: those bad jihadis take their three-year olds to demonstrations, therefore the three year olds are jihadis, so we can kill them
Then, it's: these bad jihadis take their three-year olds to demonstrations, and the three year olds will grow up to be jihadis, so we can kill them
And the all-purpose: justa few bad apples
Followed by the: war is hell
Most of what I've seen so far's fallen into that latter category, with a healthy dollop of 'But someone else once did something bad too!' and the odd bit of 'Why do you hate America?'. Sadly, this sort of rhetoric may be enough to carry the 'discourse', in the absence of a vigorous opposition party.
If it's not: those bad jihadis take their three-year olds to demonstrations, therefore the three year olds are jihadis, so we can kill them
Then, it's: these bad jihadis take their three-year olds to demonstrations, and the three year olds will grow up to be jihadis, so we can kill them
And the all-purpose: justa few bad apples
Followed by the: war is hell
Most of what I've seen so far's fallen into that latter category, with a healthy dollop of 'But someone else once did something bad too!' and the odd bit of 'Why do you hate America?'. Sadly, this sort of rhetoric may be enough to carry the 'discourse', in the absence of a vigorous opposition party.
posted by Management at 12:31 PM
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