My first diary. Don't be surprised if it's awkward and over too quickly.
In addition to lurking on dkos, I also post a lot (too much, really) on a bowhunting forum. As you can imagine, a lot of folks there are VERY conservative. Sadly, most moderate and liberal voices get tired and give up - why piss into the wind? So far, I've managed to hang on.
I read Pericles' diary yesterday (and if I knew how, I'd link to it) about Asymmetric Warfare. Highly recommended, BTW. It seemed to me to be a well written and well thought out piece, that might get some folks to look at things differently. They might still disagree, but at least they might see that another side existed. So I posted a link.
The thing is, the truth in the article was so blindingly obvious, and explained so many things so perfectly that I foolishly assumed that folks would read it, and say, "Oh, yeah! That makes sense!"
I suppose I was expecting too much.
But then, it just reminds me of how everything has gone the last 5 years.
Time and time again, what was going to happen if we followed a particular course was crystal clear.
Time and time again, they were warned what could happen.
Time and time again, they called us naysayers, defeatists, chicken littles.
Time and time again, exactly what they were TOLD would happen, DID happen.
It's like a horrible combination of "Groundhog Day" and being trapped in a car with a drunk driver.
Over and over again, you scream, "Watch out! You're going to drove off the cliff!"
Over and over again, Bush turns around and says, "Hold my beer! Watch this!"
Over and over again, the tires scream, the car flys through the guardrail, falls hundreds of feet, and crashes in flames.
Then I wake up from the dream, look around, and there I am, strapped in the passenger's seat, with Bush at the wheel, and he's starting to get THAT LOOK in his eye again....
And now the neocons, forgetting that we did Iraq first because it was supposed to be the easiest, are saying, "Forget Iraq. What we REALLY need to do is invade IRAN! This time, it'll work! Trust me!"
And Bush turns around and says, "Hold my beer! Watch this!"