Oh Brother, Brooks!

As Petraeus testifies, Baghdad teeters on edge of erupting

David Brooks should quit his day job and any other job that pertains to his allegedly knowing anything about anything. David, I’m sorry to have to pick on you all the time, but you represent to me a great deal of what is wrong with American news commentary (regardless of how tolerable to Democrats everyone says you are). Over five years ago, you were one of the many pundits who as a shill for this Bush administration thought invading Iraq was simply a fantabulous idea! Now whenever you find it to be expedient, say when a certain General and Ambassador are slated to testify before congress about how the surge has worked, how progress is being made politically and militarily, etc., etc., you toe that exact same line regardless of what the cold hard facts entail. “55% of Iraqis say their lives are going well… 49% now say the U.S. was right to invade Iraq.” ARE YOU $#!TT!NG ME?! The front page of the periodical for which you write even reads: “Iraqi Offensive Against Militia Is Raising Concerns on Stability”.

You argue that a primal mistake made was to assume that an Iraqi democracy would evolve the same way it did here in America. I would argue that it was a primal mistake to invade the country in the first place! “Democrats happily declare that there has been no political progress… because this grand compromise is the only kind of political progress they can conceive of.” This statement feeds into the classical GOP line that Democrats/Liberals/Progressives hate America and therefore do not want to see this country succeed. Listen Brooks, it makes me pretty far from happy to see what has happened to that country and by proxy, our country, as a result of the disastrous foreign policy decisions you so merrily cheer-led. Secondly, political progress at this point in time is nothing less than an oxymoron, moron, so long as our “coalition of the willing” is occupying their country. If you really want to apply the old 1776 analogy, WE – the United States would be the British (the occupiers) and the Iraqis would be those declaring their independence from the tyrannical occupiers. But I guess since neither the Sunnis, nor Shiites, nor Kurds have had a tea party – the analogy does not apply.

Brooks, I assure you that when all is said and done, and you are nothing more than an extraordinarily bad memory of how an American Press Corps should not do their jobs, my grandchildren will look back and say: “Now THAT’s what happens when you have such an abominably ill-informed populous.” You see, the only reason you can get away with spouting off the nonsense you do is because most Americans don’t care nearly enough about this country to call people like you out for the shill you are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/opinion/08brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin