For a long time, Bill Kristol, self-anointed “boss” of the Weekly Standard (for so his minions refer to him), has been my least favorite neocon. Billie Boy bears more responsibility than any other non-government official for the trillion-dollar tragedy known as “Operation Enduring Freedom”,1 better described as “Operation Enduring Disaster”, an unforced error that cost over 5,000 Americans their lives and left over 30,000 wounded—trivial when compared to the suffering inflicted on the citizens of Iraq, but substantial none the less—while strengthening al Qaeda and spawning ISIS. Still, kudos to Bill for having clearer vision than fellow Likudist Charles Krauthammer. Bill, writing in the WS re “Our Progress in Degeneracy”,2 gets off the following, on the way to suggesting that the Republican Party ought to go the way of the Whigs:
“The Republican president continues to speak out with no recognition of the normal proprieties of the presidential office, no appreciation for the dignity of the nation he represents, and no acknowledgment that he should be constrained by the truth. Meanwhile, the president appoints his daughter a White House adviser, and empowers her husband to be involved in delicate matters of foreign policy. Nepotism is a fact of life, but it would be foolish to deny that unabashed nepotism is evidence of progress in degeneracy.”
I’d be happy to see the Republicans go, Bill, as long as you don’t help lead the replacement. Because I can throw you a lot further than I can trust you. In fact, I’d like to throw you, just to find out how far I can trust you.
- The invasion of Iraq was not a “Jewish plot”. It was an “Ivy League WASP Plot”, two Yalies and a Princeton man driving their country to ruin. Harvard must have been sooo glad to have missed out on that one. ↩︎
- Krauthammer titled his piece “American Democracy: Not So Decadent after All”. You say decadent, I say degenerate, n’est pas? ↩︎
