Oh, come on — you’d never heard that parable before The Crying Game
By I know it’s uncouth to evaluate a blogger based on the revealed wisdom of his or her commenters. After all, when Tough Guy Jules Crittenden writes a post entitled Clearing the Earth of the Depraved”, I’m sure he’s putting to use a very specific definition of “depraved” — honed through long nights of moonlit contemplation — and that the phrase “clearing the earth” wouldn’t have anything to do with, say, lining people up against a wall and shooting them before bulldozing their corpses into a massive hole. If his readers mistake his point, the fault surely rests elsewhere.
Crittenden, of course, is mystified by the violence in Iraq:
These guys look like they’re on their own crazy program. It’s like Iraq has officially turned into a playground for murderous wackjobs. Hold on. It already was. That’s why we’re there.
Jules’ commenters, sadly — one of whom is this guy, one of the barflies at Confederate Yankee — aren’t quite so down with the simple message of peace he bears.
These are the same kind of loons Saddam’s gang machine gunned in waves until their barrels melted. That’s really about you can do with’em.
It’s the scorpion and the frog parable. These people can’t be “negotiated” with.
Too bad we cauldronized the country and allowed some of these “loons” to lynch Saddam before he finished writing his counterinsurgency manual. Surely we could have used his help “clearing the earth.”