"What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn't kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything? Wasn't the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence now?" John Podhoretz.Glenn Greenwald:
Yes: "untermenschen" -- that, as Reynolds and Ledeen so sincerely lament today, is how "they" think -- the "they" being not the "they" who want to drop more and more bombs and incinerate more and more of the "untermenschen" beyond the extraordinary numbers who have already died as a result of their warmongering -- the Michael Ledeens and Glenn Reynolds who call for more and more slaughter due to "the limitations of the people in that part of the world" -- but rather, the people who oppose that.Five months ago, Glenn Reynolds called for "more rubble, less trouble" -- meaning more indiscriminate slaughter of the Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East -- because there seemed to be no hope for the people in that part of the world to evolve beyond their savage, primitive ways, their "stone-age tribalism." Today, Michael Ledeen scornfully said that that's how the vile people on the Left think. Glenn Reynolds linked to that and said "He's right. That's how they seem to think."
This type of conversation reminds me of my history class.....hmmmm. Why does this sound so ... familiar?
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