multiplexo's Journal: Shit!

Is there anyone more pathetically deluded than Andrew Sullivan? The man is a gay, Catholic, Republican. I just want to grab him by his cheeks and scream in his face "Dude, you can be any two of those things as long as one of them isn't gay.". Sure, there are lots of gay Catholics, there are also lots of gay Nazis, oh wait, I forgot where I was going with this, probably some tendentious analogy comparing the Catholic Church and Nazism, perhaps pointing out the fact that the main leadership of the Nazi Party, Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Roehm were all from Bavaria or Austria, the most Catholic parts of die Europaische Deutschesprachelande, and hey, we have a Bavarian pope now. But never mind. Anyways, back to Sullivan, in his blog he writes:

We have a crisis of confidence in the war. Read Congressman Murtha's speech. (Hat tip: Rod.) He's no MoveOn lefty. The president and vice-president are fighting back on the issue of their alleged deception before the war. As I have written here, I believe that the WMD intelligence fiasco was an honest and forgivable mistake, not a conspiracy or pre-meditated deception.

http://www.andrewsullivan.com/

OK, let's say that there was no attempt to deceive the American people, everything was above the board, Bush and Cheney were genuinely freaked out and for once weren't thinking about their oil interests. Let's say that they were really freaked out by that whole Iraqi Mushroom Cloud meme. OK, fine, they've gotten us into a war which has caused thousands of lives and completely fucked up the middle east getting us into a quagmire that makes America's handling of the Vietnam War look like the most brilliant geo-political strategy since the creation of the British Empire.

Now the reason this is so sad and pathetic is that Sullivan has some glimmer of intelligence, that an uncomfortable iconoclasm puts him in the uncomfortable position of trying to balance his sexuality with his religious and political beliefs, and he's just using that intelligence to delude himself into believing that the motivations for some crimes just doesn't matter in the face of their consequences, and surely bringing a nation to war is one of these crimes.