Joltin’ Joe

Posted by Freddie on February 21, 2007 under Uncategorized |

Imagine my surprise this morning to come across this in an updated post from a couple days ago by Joe Klein at Time’s Swampland blog. He’s speaking to a commenter who was a member of the armed forces currently feeling guilt and shame about the state of our deployment in Iraq, partly for not being there. The commenter’s solution is to bring the troops home now. Joe says:

First, thank you for your service. Second–and I know this doesn’t mean much–but I’m never so infuriated with Bush et al as when I think about your unwarranted shame and guilt, multiply it 100,000 times across the force, and think about the disastrous consequences for our military and our country. This has now happened twice in my lifetime, in Vietnam and Iraq. And I’m dedicating the rest of my life to making sure that we never go to war so foolishly again–if at all.

Wow. That’s powerful stuff. Dedicating the rest of this life to preventing this sort of war? Can you imagine David Brooks or even Christopher Hitchens making such a claim? I have to admit: that’s a dose of inspiration from the ol’ mainstream media this morning. Seems like Joe had a splash of Cronkite in his coffee on Sunday.