Comments on: And a Few More Things

By: aj

aj — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:46:10 +0000

This just shows you how much we need God in our lives and how much we need to pray to God for help for both ourselves and our nation. I found a website that talks about some of this at http://www.werepent.org I think every Christian should check it out.

By: Zach Wendling

Zach Wendling — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:40:13 +0000

I’m particularly struck by Larison’s fourth point. I remember back in the days before the war, the paleo-cons were apoplectic about the spread of neo-Wilsonianism through the conservative movement. While that may have been the case for many conservatives (i.e., that they were mesmerized by the so-called neo-cons’ vision of American Greatness), I think it was under-appreciated that many other conservatives, myself included, signed on to the invasion only on the grounds that it served our national security. I do not think the warnings alluded to in point #4 reached us, as they seemed beside the point.
I also think that many of those in this latter group, once the lack of WMD became apparent, fell back on the Wilsonian justifications for war, at which point the paleo-cons had retreated (or had already been dismissed), and so could no longer serve as a corrective voice.

By: JohnS

JohnS — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:12:28 +0000

What a relief it is to be reading these posts. It’s been a long time coming.

By: philosopher

philosopher — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:40:57 +0000

Hey David– you probably (and quite reasonably, since I’ll bet you already follow his blog) didn’t bother clicking through the Sullivan link I pasted. But actually it’s his post on the Larison that I was linking to!