The anti-American right

As the first in what will likely become a depressingly long series, here are a few words from today’s New York Times op-ed (reg. required) by anti-American rightist William Safire.

Patience is not an American virtue. Saddam anticipates that the antiwar minority — furious at the unexpected ease of the U.S. victory and shrugging off findings of mass graves of Saddam’s victims — would turn a steady accretion of casualties among occupiers into dread visions of “quagmire.”

Tarring your political opponents as supporters of mass murder and desirous of failure and death for the American military because they do not agree with your rationale for war is anti-American. And all too common on the right. And I’m sick of it, and I’m going to make a note of it every time I see it—or any other typical rightist anti-democracy, anti-free-speech, anti-civil-society vomit—from now on.

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