Charades
France and Germany -- the frightened old people of Europe -- what can they possibly be thinking to justify their craven support for Saddam Hussein? Secretary Rumsfeld has ripped them a new one in response to their outlandish behavior over Iraq. At what point do we simply write them off as unserious historical appendages of allies? They certainly are not allies today.
And to assert, with a straight face, that the UN has the will, capability, or moral authority to disarm Iraq means that one is either lying to oneself, or to us:
"Allowing Iraq to become chairman of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament and selecting Libya to lead its Commission on Human Rights showed that the institution "seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility," [Rumsfeld] said. [emphasis added]
Yet the Saddam Left repeatedly calls for "literate debate" on the issues. Is it possible to have even a human language conversation, much more a debate, with a class of people who reject the plain meaning of words?
The time has come to wholesaledly write off the sliver of the nation's, and the world's, population that refuses to educate itself on the issues, refuses to admit reality into their thinking, and refuses to add anything to the debate other than purposefully mischievous misconstruations of every minor and major clause and codicil.
They've chosen their side, let them stay there.
