Another skewering of the clueless right
By the incomparable Billmon, who takes Captain’s (hind)Quarters to
task:
But of course, we’re not talking about reasonable or intelligent people here, we’re dealing with the yahoo right — the kind of people who can (and do) go absolutely batshit when a crucifix is photographed in beaker of urine, but who just can’t understand how 1.2 billion Muslims could get their noses so out of joint over a harmless little frathouse prank like stomping on their holy scripture.
Of course, it’s pretty old news that the wingnuts have no idea how to fight, much less win, the war against Islamic terrorism (unless genocide counts.) I don’t know how to win it either, but I have a pretty clear idea how it could be lost, and the kind of pseudo-macho stupidity on display at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo definitely has helped move us in that general direction, if we’re not there already.
But Captain Keyboard also demonstrates a much stranger point: Despite all the rhetoric, winning the war against terrorism really isn’t all that important to the wingnut right — far less important, anyway, than always feeling morally superior to the hated liberals and never, ever admitting that the Bush administration’s critics might, just once, be right.