Mitch--You support the Great and Glorious War Against Some Brown People That in No Way Was Trumped Up, right? So why haven't you enlisted yet? Army recruitment is way down. What's your excuse? Go on, Jonah Goldberg gave his (too expensive, he's got a young child, he's fat).

Not that you've done anything to deserve an answer, but I'm 42 and have two kids.

If I were 25 and single, I think I'd have joined up.

OK - so since you support the Great and Glorious Dictator who was a benevolent teddybear until we trumped up charges and railroaded him into jail; why haven't you converted to Islam and moved to, say, Iraq or Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or Palestine?

Same logic.

Hey Something Polish--I'm a lonely little man living in his mother's basement who leaves anonymous crank comments on peoples' blogs - from IP address 63.224.14.132 - but I notice that Mitch answers yours, but ignores and ridicules me. I bet it's because you add something to the discussion!

You need to stop that!

Hey, Mitch! You're part of the "101st Screaming Keyboardists!" CHICKENHAWK! CHICKENHAWK!

Same logic.

Um, no it isn't, silly. I never ever ever supported Sandman Insane (that's what I call him!). But you did, and for some reason still do support, Great and Glorious War Against Some Brown People. See the difference?

I'll grant you one thing, you have a better excuse than the Doughy Pantload, Jonah Goldberg.

Yes, it is. You state the grounds for the war in the most pejorative possible terms - like it's a racist lark that treats Arabs like worthless chattel. For me, it is quite the opposite; "some brown people" are living a lot better now than they were three years ago. Yet you cast the war - and my support of it - as a racist enterprise with no rational motivation, calling it a "war against brown people", a motivation that never crossed MY mind, for one. Hence the "logic" of assuming you, by the same token, support genocidal dictators.

So while I don't necessarily think you DO support dictators, I think it's only fair that your motivations get the same treatment, too. If you want to plead "no, I don't support dictators", quit playing pick-up-stix with other peoples' motivations!

Dumper: I loved that "101st Fighting Keyboardist" line the first time I heard it - TWO YEARS ago, on Daily Kos. And the 40,000 times since then. By the way, getting called a "chickenhawk" loses a little impact coming from an anonymous crank. Just so's ya know.

Yes, it is.

Is not.

Hm.

And I was starting to think there was grounds for a discussion.

Silly me.