TAIBBI K-O'S KLOWN - ER KLEIN!

Well if you want to read the whole article - and LOST knows you should, you'll have to go here to do it, but for now enjoy a snipped or two of the righteous indigation inherent in being right all along about the epic disaster that Bush-Cheney steered us into in Iraq:

(after quoting a piece from a November, 2003 Klein article praising JFK's genius for marketing the "Green Berets" as an exotic, attractive fighting force for freedom, and suggesting that Bushco should do the same for Iraq) So, to translate, here's Klein's take on the army in the post-Vietnam era:

After sending a generation of idealistic young whippersnappers off to war in Southeast Asia with snazzy new unis, we end up killing two million people from one of the poorest agrarian countries on earth, turning huge sections of North Vietnam as well as illegally-bombed Laos and Cambodia into permanent moonscapes, and sending 60,000 Americans home in body bags, with tens of thousands more coming back crippled, poisoned, or psychologically ravaged. We furthermore let it get out that we started the war under false pretenses and kept up the fight long after even the Pentagon knew the whole thing was a hopeless waste of lives and money. Beyond that, we dump deadly poison on 5.6 million acres of a state the size of New Mexico, creating conditions that would leave every hospital in South Vietnam filling storage rooms, for the next thirty years, with two-and three-headed babies in jars. Photographers like Phillip Jones Griffiths would come back decades later with horrifying galleries of thousands of twisted genetic freaks left to lie for years on mats in malarial villages...

And yet, despite all of this, the real reason idealistic young people from the fancy classes have not been rushing into the services in the years since then is because the army isn't offering them their own hat.

And again, after listing a recent Klein blog post into which he injected the invective-pregnant canard that "leftists are rooting for the Iraq War effort to fail," there's this blast:

Ok, to begin with, I'm just absolutely tired of this bullshit coming from people like Klein who insist that "leftists" are "rooting" for American failure.

Let's get this straight: there are no "leftists" in modern-day America. Or, rather, there about ten of them, and you can find absolutely every single one of them at the next antiwar or anti-anything protest in Washington; they all fit in one section of the park behind the White House, where you can find pretty much all of them passing out small stacks of socialist fliers, mainly to each other. These socialists are committed, dedicated, utterly serious political activists, which makes them absolutely atypical Americans, which is why there are so few of them.

The rest of the people that the Kleins of the world are calling "leftists" are mostly cautious consumers who watch a lot of Netflix movies, have maybe read Love in the Time of Cholera once or twice, and whose most aggressive step in the direction of socialism is a vote in favor of increased school spending. They might drive a foreign car, or willingly see a movie with subtitles. If that makes them "leftists," what word are we going to use for real leftists?

Enjoy the article, and be comforted by the knowledge, dear handful of loyal readers, that we were right. You have a few minutes to do so, before we must turn our hearts, minds, souls and strength (Oh, S'ter would be proud) toward how to bring this thing to an end quickly, before the DC equivalent of BJ and the Bear start the tactical nuke two step in Tehran.