But then it's not bizarre if you read Paul Rosenberg's summary of Altemeyer's analysis.

Where is that, please?

These people are monsters.

They ran as conservatives, and have got the conservative vote, but they aren't conservatives. Conservatives are people who hate taxes and like to sing the Star Spangled Banner with a lump in their throat. They aren't evangelicals either. Evangelicals are people who write The Battle Hymn of the Republic because they support abolition, people who go build houses for the poor on weekends.

But these, they started with pre-emptive war. They moved on to extraordinary rendition and torture. The continued with fantasies of a global war, World War IV some of them called it. And now they have started to rehabilitate genocide. They have lost their humanity. In the antiquated vocabulary of the pre-electronic society, they are no longer human, they are monsters, because what they desire is monstrous.

I propose an amnesty. All the conservatives who want to go back to being cheap on taxes, and pro-business, and singing the Star Spangled Banner with a lump in your throats, please do. All the evangelicals that want me to remember that you spearheaded the abolition movement and help the poor, I will. I promise never to mention this thing that took over your party or your church, I promise to argue with you with a finger in the air over whether starting small businesses or building houses and handing out checks is the right thing to do in New Orleans. I will even promise to get together with you once in a while and build houses and sing the Star Spangled Banner, I'll work on the lump in my throat.

Only help us get these monsters and put them where they can't do any more damage.

In a recent column, in her usual thoughtful, enlightened manner, she writes:

If you want a shorter rebuilding process, then we're going to have to wage less humane wars. The enemy -- as well as innocent civilians -- must be bombed into quivering terror. Otherwise, we displace aggression but don't destroy it.

And she manages to relate this to Moses and the Isrealites. Nothing like citing the Bible as your model for foreign policy.

These bloodthirsty wingnuts have a philosophy of "give war a chance." Nothing brings freedom like a bloody, murderous occupation. Surely, the occupied will love us all the more the more we kill them.

shooter242:

And the way preferable to RWA is what exactly?

This is interesting stuff, let's hear about the ideal governing arrangement.

Governing is of necessity an imperfect process, which is why it is always necessary to allow to fundmental revisions. However, a middling good governing arrangement can be found here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

It's called the Constitution of the United States.

An earlier commenter has somewhat obliquely pointed this out, but: bentonite and chlorine are everywhere in modern society. These common, cheap chemicals allow us to live safe, clean, comfortable modern lives.
Bentonite is cat litter, liner material for landfills and man-made ponds, and a component in some drilling muds. It is a swelling clay that is commonly used as a water barrier in many construction applications.
It was probably mixed with finely divided anthrax for the purpose of absorbing (adsorbing) atmospheric water vapor that would otherwise cause clumping of anthrax spores. The attacks occurred in Florida and the Washington, D.C. areas, both of which are very humid through most of the year. Clumps of >100-10000 spores would not disperse well in air; finely divided silica gel or bentonite help prevent this. These two benign, mundane industrial materials are very commonly used to inhibit clumping of powdered materials, and the world is full of people who know it.
Chlorine is not benign, but it is cheap, and clean municipal water supplies would not exist without it. You can no more remove it from the world than you could remove fuel oil and ammonium nitrate.
That bentonite is mysterious and threatening when first encountered by journalists and propagandists is only demonstrative of their absurdly rarefied liberal arts educations -- and their total lack of exposure to the practical arts of modern society. These neurotic twits should have had the opportunity to do construction work during their summer breaks -- it would have improved them more than the desirable, unpaid internships they probably took instead.

Where is that, please?

The last word of the original post (before the first update) is "this." It is linked to Paul's essay on MyDD.

That bentonite is mysterious and threatening when first encountered by journalists and propagandists is only demonstrative of their absurdly rarefied liberal arts educations -- and their total lack of exposure to the practical arts of modern society.

While I agree with your characterization of the mystery and lack of knowledge of common chemicals, what does it have to do with liberal arts education? A liberal arts education by definition exposes people to a wide range of subjects and instruction before specialization. These people are suffering from lack of exposure. My bet is they didn't get a liberal arts education, in anything but name.

I use Rosie O'Donnell as the example of all the liberal viewpoints out there? Would that be reasonable Glenn?

No reasonable person with any real control over the war has suggested any of the things you so happily trot out. Not Bush, Cheney, Petrayus, no one.

All they have done from the beginning is try to limit the deaths and give people their freedom.

You are completely off base with this nonsense. In fact while I don't think all liberals are in Rodie's class, you most definitely are.

"He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, 'must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings -- we approach them with the might of a deity,' and so on, and so on. 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' etc., etc. From that point he soared and took me with him. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence -- of words -- of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!' The curious part was that he had apparently forgotten all about that valuable postscriptum, because, later on, when he in a sense came to himself, he repeatedly entreated me to take good care of 'my pamphlet' (he called it), as it was sure to have in the future a good influence upon his career."