Bob's Links and Rants

Welcome to my rants page! You can contact me by e-mail: bob@goodsells.net. Blog roll. Site feed.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Clueless without end

(All emphasis added)
We remain on the offensive in Afghanistan, where a fine President and a National Assembly are fighting terror while building the institutions of a new democracy.
...
Our work in Iraq is difficult because our enemy is brutal. But that brutality has not stopped the dramatic progress of a new democracy.
-- W, State of the Union Address, January 31, 2006

You can't run a government, you can't have a democracy if you've got an armed faction within your country.
-- W, Monday (via Billmon)

Billmon wonders how that last quote is going to play with the NRA. My question is: Are there any unarmed factions in Afghanistan or Iraq? Certainly the unwelcome invaders from the other side of the earth constitute heavily armed factions in each country.

Maybe the scariest thing is that W probably actually believes what he says in both quotes above. Orwell called the ability to believe contradictory thoughts simultaneously "doublethink": although given W's limited thinking ability we'll just call this "W-think."