Enemy at the Gates
January 27, 2007
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the congressional resolution opposing George Bush’s sending more troops to Iraq “emboldens the enemy.” Let me see if I understand this reasoning: we are in Iraq in order to promote democracy; congressional debates and resolutions over governmental policies are part of the democratic process; therefore, democracy “emboldens the enemy” and makes it more difficult to bring democracy to Iraq.
Is it any wonder that “Faux News” has such a following among boobus Americanus?
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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