All better?
YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.
For someone so unimpressed with touchy-feely liberalism, Malkin seems to think that a simple, warm handshake is all that's needed to heal the damage - to families, to infrastructure, to security - caused by the Iraq war.
Look, it's a very touching photograph, and just like in anything, personal, face-to-face contact is the surest way to build bridges. Unfortunately, we destroyed them a lot faster than we're building them back up, and we essentially created an entire movement dedicated to continuing to burn them.
Update: Which, I suppose, makes me a "Defeatocrat" for not celebrating the Iraqi elections. Yes - it's great that they're having elections! But it would take a particular ignorance of history not to know that the kind of conditions on the ground in Iraq today are exactly the kind of conditions which lead to the eventual election of strongmen. Leaders like...Saddam Hussein.
Look, it's a very touching photograph, and just like in anything, personal, face-to-face contact is the surest way to build bridges. Unfortunately, we destroyed them a lot faster than we're building them back up, and we essentially created an entire movement dedicated to continuing to burn them.
Update: Which, I suppose, makes me a "Defeatocrat" for not celebrating the Iraqi elections. Yes - it's great that they're having elections! But it would take a particular ignorance of history not to know that the kind of conditions on the ground in Iraq today are exactly the kind of conditions which lead to the eventual election of strongmen. Leaders like...Saddam Hussein.
posted by Auguste at 4:02 PM
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