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UPDATE: Rand Simberg emails: "I suspect that historians will judge Democrats unserious regardless of the war's outcome. In fact, if it goes badly enough, history of the era will be written in Arabic." And even those historians won't respect Maher and his audience, though they may be grateful for their petty Bush-hatred.

Do these people actually beleive such things?

history of the era will be written in Arabic

I wouldn't like that. I already have enough guilt of procrastination for not learning damn French.

Do these people actually believe such things?

Yup. In their confused minds it goes like this:

1. They turn their backs on Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan for ONE SECOND.

2. Moore and Sheehan engineer a handover of the U.S. to Osama bin Laden.

3. Sheehan becomes Osama's ninth wife, fulfilling her deepest desire, while Moore runs the death squads slaughtering American patriots (in return for all the ring dings he can eat).

4. History is written in Arabic!!!!!

So if the US were to win The War Against Terror, would there be 1) no Arab historians, 2) no Arab language, or 3) no Arabs?

I have often wondered why some people are conservative and others are liberal. Of course it is not as simple as that but is it because people's brains are wired differently? Or is it the way they were raised? Is it an emotional reaction to life experiences? Or is it a combination of all these things or none of these things.

Then of course you have the American rise of religious fanatics and what makes these people tick?

My impression is that the answer lies in fear. People fear change, some a great more deal than others. People fear change because change brings unknown factors into our lives. Look at the success of fast food chains and one of the secrets to their success, other than fat tastes great, is that you can count on buying food that looks and tastes the same time after time, no matter where you are or when you are. A MacDonald's hamburger tastes the same if you buy it in New York or chomp one down in Los Angeles.

Or look at one of Bill Clinton's campaign mottos that being people want change. This was clever because he was not saying that people want change, he was saying there was too much change and people longed to return to a more stable reality kind of a change back to less change.

If you think about the two conservatives who recently came to this site look at their approach, it was attack, name calling and aggressive. These are the earmarks of frightened people.

Cheers Jon, that made me laugh out loud.

why do people take glen reynolds seriously? he isn't very thoughtful in his approach to human understanding, and although he uses many big words (lugubriously) and is mighty smart, he doesn't appear to be very bright.

just my two cents....

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Glenn Reynolds is a wise man. Historians always blame comedians when a country loses a war (sarcasm.)

"*Should* things go badly in the war?" Is he kidding?

Here is a snippet from Wikipedia, part of an interesting history of the word barbarian. I thought that there was a remarkable likeness to a certain president we have come to know and love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian

Out of those sources the Hellenic stereotype was elaborated: barbarians are like children, unable to speak or reason properly, cowardly, effeminate, luxurious, cruel, unable to control their appetites and desires, politically unable to govern themselves.

the short play starring C-Hitch is still one of the sharpest things I've seen on the site. but, I'm probably only saying that because I'm such a witless ninny

they can't stand the fact that Bill Maher has a huge following. Hitchens's 'fuck you' makes me think they're really getting desperate.

this makes me a happy grrl.

Don't confuse the Bush gang with actual Conservatives.

Their behavior is based on a strange mixture of superstition and Nietzschian Will-to-Power - Jesus-sanctioned Will-to-Power, shall we say. Conservative values of moderating the pace of change, and self-reliance, (values that thoughtful Liberals balance against speeding changes to foster justice, and empowering the powerless,) are mere talking points for these people to bring the right of center folks into their nefarious fold.

I recently heard that in his final days, even Barry Goldwater was disgusted with this crew. Also, John Dean has not given over his Conservative credentials, but deprecates the lot of them.