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You would think that self-awareness would be a prerequisite for folks like political columnists. But it sure doesn't turn out that way.
The similar event this weekend that got to me was the obscene observation from notorious anti-blogger Richard Cohen at, I kid you not, Huffington Post:
As Paul Wolfowitz is proving, it turns out all is not fair in love and war. Only war. Take a nation to war for spurious reasons and no one much complains. But arrange a raise for your girlfriend, and you get booed in the atrium of the World Bank and have to visibly sweat in public.
No one complained. As if Cohen himself had only just happened upon the scene of the crime. As if Cohen himself had not said:
Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without a doubt still retains them. Only a fool -- or possibly a Frenchman -- could conclude otherwise.
As if Cohen himself had not said:
the Iraq war is not the product of oil avarice, or CIA evil, but of a surfeit of altruism.
As if Cohen himself had not said:
so many liberals, myself included, originally supported the war (because it) engaged us emotionally.
There can not (and should not) be official accountability for the malfeasance of these wretches. But we can (and must) hold their feet to the fire.
