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Or, at least he thinks that roughly 60% of Americans are stupid. He thinks you’re impatient, misguided and should trust every word the idiots running the show in Iraq tell you.

David Brooks even thinks that democracy, while important to places like Egypt, Iran and Iraq, doesn’t mean a whole lot here in America.

Will of the people? Meh.

David Brooks’ latest assault on reason is printed in today’s New York Times.

Iraq and the Polls.

Yet I can’t believe majorities of Americans really want to pull out and accept defeat. I can’t believe they want to abandon to the Zarqawis and the Baathists those 8.5 million Iraqis who held up purple fingers on Election Day. I can’t believe they are yet ready to accept a terrorist-run state in the heart of the Middle East, a civil war in Iraq, the crushing of democratic hopes in places like Egypt and Iran, and the ruinous consequences for American power and prestige.

More drivel on the flip…
60% of Americans think that this war was a mistake and are beginning to look for a way out. In Brooks’ reasoning, this means little because if a majority of this nation’s citizens want to change course, it would “crush” “democracies” in Eqypt and Iran. Apparently, the majority of Americans who have had their fill of this ridiculous war are also endangering American “power and prestige”.

Earth to Brooks: the American people aren’t the ones grinding the American military to dust in Iraq. That’s being done by the bloodthirsty halfwits in the White House and Pentagon. Does it mean anything in a democratic context that a majority of Americans may not have faith that the same people who lied us in to this war and have prosecuted it so poorly may not be the ones best equipped to get us out of this jam?

Brooks then explains what Americans are really thinking.

What they want to do, more likely, is somehow escape the current moment, which is discouraging and uncertain. One of the many problems with fighting an insurgency is that it is nearly impossible to know if we are winning or losing. It’s like watching a football game with no goal lines and chaotic action all over the field.

Who ya gonna believe? the Pentagon or your own lyin’ eyes? Nearly impossible to know if we are winning or losing? Do you even read the newspaper that employs you?

Shorter Brooks:

“I know it looks bad but it’s impossible for you to know if it’s bad or not. Meaningless football analogy.”

On the one hand, there are signs of progress. U.S. forces have completed a series of successful operations, among them Operation Spear in western Iraq, where at least 60 insurgents were killed and 100 captured, and Operation Lightning in Baghdad, with over 500 arrests. American forces now hold at least 14,000 suspected insurgents, and have captured about two dozen lieutenants of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Maybe brooks and some idiots at the Pentagon think Operations Spear and Lightning were a success. Few others do. Of course, according to Brooks, “it’s impossible to tell.” And just how many fucking lieutenants does Zarqawi have?

Still, one thing is for sure: since we don’t have the evidence upon which to pass judgment on the overall trajectory of this war, it’s important we don’t pass judgment prematurely.

It’s too soon to accept the defeatism that seems to have gripped so many. If governments surrendered to insurgencies after just a couple of years, then insurgents would win every time. But they don’t because insurgencies have weaknesses, exposed over time, especially when they oppose the will of the majority.

Prematurely? It’s been almost 2 and half YEARS, Brooksie boy! How much longer will it be before the American people can be trusted to “pass judgment”?

Oh, and insurgencies are bad when they oppose the “will of the majority” but Republican administrations are not? Even if they “oppose the will” of majorities in this country and in Iraq? Keep flingin’, Brooksie. Something will stick.

Some of you will respond that this is easy for me to say, since I’m not over there. All I’d say is that we live in a democracy, where decisions are made by all. Besides, the vast majority of those serving in Iraq, and their families, said they voted to re-elect President Bush. They seem to want to finish the job.

“Decisions are made by all” unless they are decisions made counter the wishes of the hawks and the profiteers, apparently. But wait, according to Brooks, a majority of those serving in Iraq and their families want to keep going and their majority trumps the majority of the country at large that smells a rat. Can this logic get any more twisted?

Oh, and Dave, you might want to do some research in to the claim about “vast majorities” of the military wanting to “finish the job”. You could start here. It seems those “vast majorities” may be far less solid than you may assume.

And finally, the coup de fucking grace, the absolutely most stunning, twisted and offensive piece of this entire steaming pile.

Brooks finishes by telling the American people to keep the faith, shut up and “trust us” by quoting a real, honest to god “war president”, not one who is just playing dress up.

Biden’s speech brought to mind something Franklin Roosevelt told the country on Feb. 23, 1942: “Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst, without flinching or losing heart. You must, in turn, have complete confidence that your government is keeping nothing from you except information that will help the enemy in his attempt to destroy us.”

WTF? You give us this quote in an editorial about BushCo’s war in Iraq? Are you fucking high?  You are asking the American public  to” have complete confidence that your government is keeping nothing from you except information that will help the enemy in his attempt to destroy us”?

Un fucking believable. What a fucking toad.

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