Some welcome humility

David Ignatius has some welcome humility in today's Washington Post, which is the stance that everyone should be taking, right now, if arrogance wasn't such a popular position, right now.

How This Ends

I have to say, right now, that if Hillary Clinton wins this election on a platform of political cowardice and self-righteous grandstanding, I will lose faith in this system, for awhile.

I've already lost faith, is the truth. Politics is the refuge of the coward. It is the hiding place for every impulse we have to abdicate responsibility. And no matter how much policies and ideologies fail, there are always apologists to keep them in place, no matter how much damage they do.

You know how much I want to vomit every time I hear someone try to vault the totalitarian government of China to superpower status out of their cowardice toward aggressive leftist political impulses, right now? You know who says shit like "China is the most serious challenger to American power"?

Cowards. People who don't know what it's like to lose their lives or their freedom challenging a totalitarian dictatorship.

And on behalf of every democracy activist in China who has lost their lives or freedom and every Iraqi who has lost their lives in the name of freedom from their totalitarian leader, I just want to offer a big "fuck you" to every liberal activist taking up for those dictators in the name of their own domestic hegemony.

People like these Iraqis:

"Petraeus and his team understand, too, that this war is about people -- and helping them one by one to break the cycle of intimidation. When I asked Col. H.R. McMaster, a key Petraeus adviser, to name a turning point in Anbar, he cited the day in February when al-Qaeda deposited at a Ramadi hospital an ice chest containing the severed heads of the children of several sheiks who had been cooperating with the United States. Rather than submitting to this barbarous act, the enraged sheiks deepened their alliance with the U.S. military."

And on behalf of those Iraqis, who have suffered unspeakable tragedy in the name of having some sort of democratic alternative to the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and the barbarous violence of Al Queda, I say to those liberal activists and the Democratic Party, right now, who are in overdrive in their efforts to undermine the defense of such people, congratulations on your domestic political victories you selfish, cynical fuckheads.

Too much cock-sure and bullying ideologists in the world, today. Some of them brutal and deadly.

It's nice to read a little humility every now and then.

Love,
Ben