I am linking an excellent piece which I wish I had written by Eric at Classical Values entitled A Different Kind of Education. One quote:
...Glenn Reynolds links Mario Loyola, who thinks defeatism is built into the Democratic Party by a sort of Hobson's choice:
I must say that I sympathize with the bind that Democratic leaders are in somewhat. Defeatism is forced upon them by their base. That's why they have no choice but but to insist that Iraq is going disastrously badly, that it was all a mistake, and that we should get out now. Where they have no choice but to acknowledge that progress has been made, they must insist at all costs that President Bush's policies have had nothing to do with it. It is a matter of political reality. Their base will throw them back into the minority if they say anything else.
If that's the Democratic base, then the Democratic base is defective. Years of pacifist indoctrination have taken their toll. I think this dishonest mindset is part of the legacy of the Vietnam war draft deferment system:
...young men who in normal times could have been expected to form an officer core were, though the draft deferment system, transformed into a malignantly dishonest force which is now one of the most powerful political forces in the country.
At the core is an insistence that cowardice (which is the antithesis of virtue) is a virtue.
People who have defied the wisdom of the ages by making such a grotesque logical error, are in my view rendered incapable of admitting error at all.
I often think debating such a point of view is a useless exercise in the absurd.
Read the whole thing.
