Dr. Sanity,

just wanted to let you know that I have enjoyed your blog for some time now, though this is my first post.

I also wanted to bring to your attention another blogger I enjoy, GunnyG, who often tries to analyze the liberal 'mind', and currently is writing a series of posts on the subject, entitled liberal/socialists.

He comes to many of the conclusions you do, and I thought you might enjoy reading a psychological layman's view. A former Marine Sergeant, he also has a punchy, no-hold's barred writing style that I find quite enjoyable, and think that you might too.

Have a nice day and happy blogging.

http://noliberalspin.townhall.com/
philosophocon | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 9:04 am | #

Years ago, when Podhoretz's essay "World War IV" came to my attention, I forwarded a copy to an acquaintance in deep throes of BDS brought on by the defeat of Gore in the 2000 election. My point was to demonstrate the rightness of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the logic behind our liberation of Iraq from that megalomaniacal, hegemonic tyrant who bred so much disruption in the ME.

Podhoretz's words are just as true now as they were then. The acquaintance continues to cling to paranoic fantasies that the Bush/Cheney administration is the worst threat to humankind since time immemorial. There is little hope for stupid-stubborn among the self-designated "intellectual elite".
onlineanalyst | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 10:12 am | #

The isolationists on both sides would have reacted differently for the 9/11 attack.

The paleoconservative right did not want to engage in the world affair, due to "rest of the world is bad for us" attitude, would still have fought back when under attack. That is somewhat Jacksonian, no?

However, the LLL isolationists would think that we deserve every blow that's coming to us, and would do nothing (except group hugs) to protect the homeland, let alone to fight back.
always right | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 11:41 am | #

The battle of ideas should be the most obvious in academia, is it not? We find the exact opposite from the self-proclaimed "most tolerant minded" intellectuals and the next generation that they nurture.

Why didn't the intellectuals embrace Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice? Wouldn't those two be some of the shining achievements of liberals' goals? Those of us on the right would have admitted that they (the liberals) were right in their "previously fought civil battles".

That Justice Thomas and Secretary Rice have different political views should not have blinded the fair-and-open-minded liberals from acknowledging their success. Instead we saw vitriol thrown against them, not for their ideas, but against their persons.

Where should the battle of ideas be fought most effectively? With active opposition from the old media, how can we shine more lights on the “battle”? Very few people pay attentions to these going-ons, and most of us have already made up our minds one way or the other.
always right | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 12:39 pm | #

Thanks for the ammo Doc. It never fails me.
Jack Ryan | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 1:13 pm | #

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gabriel christou | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 5:26 pm | #

So, WWIII was "won" by Ronnie, eh?
Someone forgot to tell that to the new Rooskies, the Putinistas.
They can see plainly enough that we can't even splatter a bunch of slimey rag-tags in third-world Iraq.

Let's see if they back down in the Arctic when the rush for the black gold takes place.
We may have to fight WWIII all over again. Will we?

Ronnie would have cut and run, just like he did in Lebanon. What will Killary do?
R Moshki | Email | Homepage | 10.11.07 - 8:30 pm | #

The Soviet UNION collapsed under tremendous debt. However, communism is alive.
xqqme | Email | Homepage | 10.12.07 - 10:59 am | #

Pat, the link in your post to the follow-up essay is broken.

("The War against World War IV")
js | Email | Homepage | 10.12.07 - 2:00 pm | #

"They will never admit it is getting better in Iraq; nor will they acknowledge the reality of no attacks here in the U.S. since 9/11"

Sans those pesky anthrax attacks. Oh wait, thats yet another attack on American soil during the Bush presidency where the perpetrator still remains at large. Anyway..
MyPetGloat | Email | Homepage | 10.12.07 - 2:19 pm | #

"Anyway."

And if it gets much "better in Iraq"
we will have to sing and dance.
R Moshki | Email | Homepage | 10.13.07 - 4:07 pm | #