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The gang of ignorant dumbfucks who gave us the morally deranged war in Iraq famously thought that every tinpot with a little gunboat navy was Adolf Hitler himself. Anyone who questioned the premise of the war in Iraq -- bomb the fuck out of the ragheads until they embrace secular democratic pluralism, go team! -- was Neville Chamberlain come back to haunt Team America's awesomeness with their whining and questioning. Don't sit around and fucking think about it -- take action! Intervene! Do something! The Podhoretzian chant of "Hitler Hitler Hitler" wasn't intended to be a contribution to a debate over the war; it was intended to prevent debate over the war.

Welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, for this evening's performance, the role of Victor Davis Podhoretz Kagan will be played by an understudy, Mr. Frank Rich. And curtain:

Didi: Well, I don't know, it seems like we could create significant moral haz-

Gogo: HOOVER HOOVER HOOVER!!!!!!!

Didi: No, no, I just think we need to think this through. Banks made bad loans, then packaged them into bad bonds, then sold bad credit default swaps to cover the bad bonds that contained the bad loans, so government should give the banks money to cut them free from their losses? How does that restore commercial vitali-

Gogo: HOOVER HOOVER HOOVER OMFG YOU'RE LIKE HOOVER YOU WANT THERE TO BE A DEPRESSION AND STARVING BABIES!!!!!

Didi: I don't, I really don't. But can you explain where the money comes from for a bailout, and why tons more debt helps us to dig out of the collapse of a badly overleveraged econ-

Gogo: HOOVER HOOVER HOOVER, HOOVER HOOVER HOOVER, HOOVER HOOVER HOOVER.

Didi: (sighs heavily)

[exeunt]

This rhetorical path leads straight to failure.

posted by Chris Bray @ 12:19 PM