Hey hey, kids! It's Moral
Hey hey, kids! It's Moral Idiocy Time! Check out the fellow who can't tell the difference between the current administration and al-Qaeda. Kuttner damns George W. Bush as some all-powerful overlord, able to implement every "reckless scheme" he comes up with, unopposed. The very fact of Kuttner's publication gives the lie to this fatuous argument. Before Bush was elected, his critics thought him ill-equipped, uninformed, and incapable. Now, he is suddenly in danger of becoming an all-powerful tyrant.
Attempting to create an equivalence between a president who serves at the pleasure of the electorate (say what you will about the first election--I guarantee you that the re-election won't be as close) and a group of terrorist thugs who serve at the pleasure of their psychopathic master and an imaginary God is the move of a sloppy thinker. Attempting to create an equivalence between the ill-fought war in Southeast Asia and the nascent struggle against stateless medieval terrorists who are seeking nuclear capability is the move of a dangerously ignorant sloppy thinker.
For some sense, read James Nuechterlein.
