Paths of Glory

Bill "Old Guts and Glory" Kristol on us feckless Americans and the war:

And are we going to be such a feckless country, frankly, that we’re going to waste the sacrifices that have been made, snatch defeat and retreat out of the jaws of success and victory. …

I like that. We must sacrifice more lives so that the lives we have already sacrificed will not have been sacrificed in vain.  And what were those lives sacrificed for again?

Disastrous decisions by stupid and venal politicians aren't redeemed by the courage of the soldiers who die because of those decisions.  Kristol's high-minded horseshit about "sacrifice" and "victory" is the kind of thing the generals on both sides in World War I used to tell the troops just before they ordered them up out of the trenches for another charge across No Man's Land into the barbed wire and machine gun nests.

Via Think Progress.

Comments

[Adorable Girlfriend]

The smell of ignorance in Iraq is like the smell of napalm in Vietnam.

[Linkmeister]

If Irving Kristol had been at Verdun...

[Mike Schilling]

Kristol's insane, but "who would have noticed another madman around here?"

[Cass]

"Kristol's high-minded horseshit about 'sacrifice' and 'victory' is the kind of thing the generals on both sides in World War I used to tell the troops just before they ordered them up out of the trenches for another charge across No Man's Land into the barbed wire and machine gun nests."

Well, it got them out of those trenches, didn't it? And neither Haid nor Ludendorff ended up drawn and quartered by their own soldiers. Under the circumstances, that seems a pretty fair achievement.

[sfmike]

"Horseshit" is really too kind a word for Mr. Kristol and his ilk. But that's okay, he's all against the slaughter in Darfur, which is conveniently being commited by Muslims.

[Demosthenes]

Gotta quote Bender here; "Whattaya mean WE, meatbag"?

The only think Kristol's sacrificed is his credibility.

[myiq2xu]

What the Feck?

[Bluegrass Poet]

"But who wants to be the last man to die for Nuri al-Maliki?"