There may be more on this later . . .

. . . but I really need to get to bed. I don't read Andrew Sullivan much, but I somehow ended up on his site tonight, and while there's some interesting things contained in letters from soldiers that he reproduces, this long quote that he endorses really irks me. Maybe I'll come back and pull out the important segments, but until then, if you got a spare couple moments, read this thing. Notice how the quote begins by targeting those leftists who wanted the war to fail because they opposed it, and now similarly want reconstruction to be a continual struggle, and then ends by indirectly assigning these beliefs to the left as a whole (and then saying they're worse than Commies). I think the wishing-for-a-fuck-up left is very, very small, and to equate them with liberalism is nothing more than talk-radio tactics.

I just want a real debate. Something that isn't: "Let's take the foaming-at-the-ideological-mouth zealots as exemplary of the entire ideology." But this is how the right has been playing the game and why liberals are constantly on the defensive. I'm tired of feeling like every argument has to begin with "Of course I don't believe Saddam/soldiers dying/terrorists attacking our country/etc. is a good thing, but . . ."

At this rate, Democrats should start phrasing questions like, "Mr. Santorum, yes or no, do you still believe homosexuals are less than human beings?"