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Saturday, February 23, 2008Idiot of the day: Dean's World By VictorM:As Atrios is fond of saying, sometimes right wingers are so stupid it hurts. This bozo compares the actions of a few individuals to national movements that included armies and governments: Michael Hirsh approvingly quotes perhaps the stupidest thing ever written: "It is perhaps a paradox—and one that is fitting for the strangeness of our current age—that we will need to end the war against terrorism because we cannot end terrorism." Yes, if only we had applied this logic to Communism and Nazism, we could have avoided so much needless conflict; there are, after all, still a few Communists and Nazis, so clearly we cannot end Communism or Nazism.Michael Hirsh is right; we can no more end terrorism than we can end crime, drug use, prostitution, abortion or virtually anything else that an individual is able to carry out. Sure, we can try to control and minimize, but we can't end them. But at least the visitors to Dean's World are setting the poster straight: terrorism is a tactic. communism and nazism are ideaologies. it's impossible to eliminate a tactic. 9/11 was no fluke - we agree on that - it was about two dozen men armed with BOX CUTTERS - who herded SLEEPY COMMUTERS to their deaths. Why do Warpublicans feel they can stop that kind of terrorist with military action?
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