Good for Rod Dreher!

He has renounced his support for the war.

2003–

Ex-Friends
Casualties of this war.

We’re already moving toward Baghdad in our war against Iraq, one I believe with all my heart is just and necessary. We don’t know how long it will last, or what the fallout will be. When the smoke clears, I am afraid that one home-front casualty will be some friendships.

Emerson said it best:

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

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9:14 pm on July 10, 2007

Good for Rod Dreher

From conservative author Rod Dreher, of National Review and the Dallas Morning News, on a broadcast essay at NPR:

“As President Bush marched the country to war with Iraq, even some voices on the Right warned that this was a fool’s errand. I dismissed them angrily. I thought them unpatriotic.

“But almost four years later, I see that I was the fool….

“The fraud, the mendacity, the utter haplessness of our government’s conduct of the Iraq war have been shattering to me….

“I turn 40 next month — middle aged at last — a time of discovering limits, finitude. I expected that. But what I did not expect was to see the limits of finitude of American power revealed so painfully.

“I did not expect Vietnam. 312079

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8:00 am on January 13, 2007