{"id":24139,"date":"2011-06-21T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=24139"},"modified":"2011-06-21T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T00:10:26","slug":"quote-of-the-day-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/06\/21\/quote-of-the-day-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matt Taibbi<\/a> applies a welcome smackdown to Ross Douthat of The New York Times<\/em>.\u00a0Here he is putting a sleeper hold on Douthat’s new-found pacifism:<\/p>\n

Look, people are entitled to have changes of heart. They are also entitled to learn from experience. And most importantly, people are entitled to be wrong. We all are, from time to time. And if people like Ross Douthat emerge from the experience of observing the Iraq and Afghanistan fiascoes finally understanding \u201cthe bluntness of war as an instrument of state\u201d and the \u201cdifficulty of predicting\u201d any war\u2019s \u201clong-term consequences,\u201d that\u2019s great. I applaud it.<\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t buy it. What happened back in \u201902 and \u201903 can\u2019t be summarized as simply as a policy disagreement that Douthat, through the folly of inexperience, happened to be on the wrong side of. The mere fact that the Douthats of the world supported the war wasn’t what made them so obnoxious.<\/p>\n

Much more important was the shameless witch-hunting of antiwar voices, and the impugning of the patriotism of people who advocated the very sort of caution Douthat now claims to endorse. Douthat, remember, contributed to the\u00a0National Review\u2019s <\/em>obnoxiously-titled \u201cKumbaya Watch<\/a>,\u201d pitched as \u201cthe latest in anti-American commentary from the left.\u201d In that column he hounded critics of the president and\/or those who didn’t advocate immediate war against the Muslims, and wondered aloud about the political bias of organizations like ABC News <\/a>(they wouldn\u2019t let their reporters wear American flag lapel pins!).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Taibbi applies a welcome smackdown to Ross Douthat of The New York Times.\u00a0Here he is putting a sleeper hold on Douthat’s new-found pacifism: Look, people are entitled to have changes of heart. They are also entitled to learn from experience. And most importantly, people are entitled to be wrong. 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