perfidy

You can argue all you like about the lack of WMD, and all the attendant bullshit surrounding them - but the United States has clearly performed a good and noble act in liberating Iraq. We have eliminated a tyranny, we have freed a people.

The antiwar position can dance all it likes, but when it comes down to it, if you didn’t want the war you wanted Saddam to remain in power. The left used to criticize the right (correctly, in some cases) for support of dictators. Now, the left's kneejerk opposition to anything that the US does is support for islamofascism, and for police states that oppress their own people.

When the US does something stupid or cruel, all thinking people should oppose it. But when the United States moves to eliminate tyranny, to liberate millions, we should be applauding, not waving forty year old signs and wearing giant puppet heads.

Further, the perfect is the enemy of the good. No human endeavor is perfect. To scream that the sky is falling (quagmire!) everytime something goes wrong is frankly retarded. Criticism is good, when it is intended to correct. We have made mistakes in Iraq, but we have also corrected them. We improve. But much of the criticism aimed at US actions in Iraq seems to have the goal of ending, not improving. At convincing the American public that Iraq is a disaster zone (quagmire!) where American soldiers are being killed to no good purpose.

It pisses me off.