{"id":3066,"date":"2005-02-01T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/escaping-the-quagmire\/"},"modified":"2005-02-01T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T21:30:28","slug":"escaping-the-quagmire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/01\/escaping-the-quagmire\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping the Quagmire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tAce of Spades<\/a> is hilarious on the dilemma the anti-war crowd faces today:<\/p>\n

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Liberal Legislators Seek “Timetable” For End to Discussion of Everything To Do With Iraq<\/p>\n

W A S H I N G T O N (Acewire News Service) — Calling their previous pessimism and gloom on the prospects of free and fair Iraqi elections an “unending quagmire,” several leading Democrats called for an “exit strategy” for all discussion of the topic whatsoever….<\/p>\n

[Aaron] Brown immediately held an envelope to his forehead and intoned “Me, Peter Jennings, and Katie Couric.” Tearing open the envelope and blowing into it, he read the contents of the card inside. “Name three people currently being watched by friends and family for signs of suicidal depression, and who have had their shoelaces, belts, and Percoset confiscated by mental-health care professionals.”<\/p>\n

“It’s more true than funny,” he explained wryly.<\/p>\n

Liberal bloggers instituted their own exit strategy unilaterally and by and large refused to mention January 30th’s historic events entirely. Joshua Micah Marshall could only offer a single line — “I question the timing” — although the January 30th vote has in fact been scheduled for six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some anti-war bloggers have developed a quick case of amnesia regarding the turnout in the Iraq Election – see Notes in Samsara<\/a> for one example.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Perhaps our amnesiacs are protecting their health from this:<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart, late in the Daily Show last night to Newsweek pundit Fareed Zakaria: “I’ve watched this thing unfold from the start and here’s the great fear that I have: What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may, and again I don’t know if I can physically do this, implode.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gloat, gloat, gloat.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: One enemy of Iraq’s liberation still refers to the Baathist\/Al Qaeda terrorists<\/a> operating in post-election Iraq as an “insurgency\/partisan resistance” despite the fact that many of them, like Zarqawi, aren’t even Iraqi. Self-delusion is a more powerful force than gravity.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ace of Spades is hilarious on the dilemma the anti-war crowd faces today: Liberal Legislators Seek “Timetable” For End to Discussion of Everything To Do With Iraq W A S H I N G T O N (Acewire News Service) — Calling their previous pessimism and gloom on the prospects of free and fair Iraqi … Continue reading “Escaping the Quagmire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}