Ethics

Strength is Weakness. War is Peace.

By Ed Brayton

Watching the reaction to Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan has been very interesting. Personally, I don't have a strong opinion about it either way. I know less about such matters than I do about almost any other political issue and I must therefore rely more on the judgments of others, like Spencer Ackerman, who are far more knowledgeable about it.

But the spin from the right is quite fascinating to me. They support an escalation in troops, which Obama is giving them, but they still have to find some way to attack him for it. So no matter how much his policies are in line with their own, he must be attacked. Spencer nails the Wall Street Journal for this headline:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).