I try to be civil. Yes, indeed, I do.<\/p>\n
But sometimes, it’s totally wasted.<\/p>\n
To wit: Every time I try to figure out what are the most irredeemably stupid leftyblogs, I get to a short list; “Mercury Rising”, “Jesus General”, Atrios, “Clotting Stool” all hold places of honor…<\/p>\n
…but at the top of the list is always “Shakespeare’s Sister”, a collection of the most vacuous, whiniest bloggers this side of Ken “Ned Luddington<\/a>” Weiner.<\/p>\n And among the whole pack of defectives, “Space Cowboy” has to be…what’s the word?<\/p>\n The dumbest. The dumbest of the lot.<\/p>\n I know I’ve read things dumber than Space Cowboy’s drive-by<\/a> of the President’s visit to Yad Vashem, but for the sake of my outlook on humanity, I don’t like to dwell on them.<\/p>\n It was only just yesterday<\/font><\/strong><\/a> when Olmert Pile thought that Bush is a wise man full of Yale and Harvard infused wisdom. Here’s a closer look<\/font><\/strong><\/a> at that wisdom, as exhibited by our man of the hour during a tour of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial:<\/p>\n At one point, Bush viewed aerial photos of the Auschwitz camp taken during the war by U.S. forces and called Rice over to discuss why the American government had decided against bombing the site, Shalev said. […]<\/p>\n Between 1.1 million and 1.5 million people were killed at the camp.<\/p>\n “We should have bombed it,” Bush said, according to Shalev.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n [At this point, I guess I should take small solace that Mr. Cowboy hasn’t accused the President of bombing Auschwitz instead of finding Bin Laden. Oh, don’t worry – historical myopia almost as stupid follows. I digress].<\/p>\n “I was most impressed that people in the face of horror and evil would not forsake their God. In the face of unspeakable crimes against humanity, brave souls \u2014 young and old \u2014 stood strong for what they believe,” Bush said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I really don’t know what to make of this. I’m not sure that Bush realizes that had the US bombed the camp, the people of whose adhesion to religion he’s so enamored [why does <\/em>Mr. Cowboy have a problem with that? – Ed.] would be stone dead. Bush doesn’t seem to be aware that there were survivors at Auschwitz; is he really saying to the survivors that they should’ve been killed for the greater good of “disrupting service” at the camp?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n One wonders only briefly if Mr. Cowboy has read anything on the subject at all. Briefly, I say – lefties that have read history are rarer than All Star Wrestling fans who can recite James Joyce.<\/p>\n While nearly everyone that was <\/em>in the camps ended up “stone cold dead”, as Mr. Sensitive Cowboy puts it, anyway, there were <\/em>survivors. And, nearly to a person, they said (after the war) that they hoped we’d bomb not just the railhead, but the “showers” and crematoria, right amid the camps. In those days before GPS and laser-guided bombs, a bombing raid leveled everything within miles of a target in a rolling cascade of destruction. And yet in account after account – Elie Wiesel’s is the most famous (“we didn’t fear death – at least, not that death”); other resports come to us from the Black Book<\/a><\/em> of Nazi atrocities, from British Sergeant John Coward, an escaped POW who infiltrated Auschwitz and brought out intelligence and served as a witness at Nuremberg; from accounts related at the Holocaust Museum – a shocking number of inmates reported that they’d have preferred a death from an Allied bomb, if the same raid took out the gas chambers and crematoria, to what they knew probably awaited them.<\/p>\n And it’s completely irrelevant, because it’s not what Bush was talking about<\/em>. At our remove from the events – 62 years after Auschwitz was liberated – it should <\/em>be fairly obvious to the thinking sentient person that Bush was talking about the larger concept of Roosevelt bombing the Auschwitz\/Birkenau complex, as opposed to weighing operational options in preparation for setting up an Air Targeting Order.<\/p>\n Bush wasn’t sending targets to the Air Force; he was apologizing in effect for President Roosevelt’s inaction on the camps. A true thinking man, the kind that really has wisdom, might have opined that the bombing of the roads and supply lines surrounding the camp would’ve been a great way to start.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\nSpeaking of “thinking people”, Mr. Cowboy tries to put a “thinking guy” costume on…<\/p>\n