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Celebration

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Celebration
: Glenn Reynolds quotes Tim Blair:

I SHOULDN’T be so happy. After all, I’m a right-wing deathbeast, and the end (or near end) of a war should upset me, because we conservatives lust for war all the time….

Those Iraqis dancing in the streets? That should really piss me off, because I want to oppress them and steal their oil. Why are they even able to dance? I was promised 500,000 murders, yet thus far only 1,000 or so innocents have died.

So why am I so damn happy? I really can’t explain.

Yes, I shouldn’t be so happy, either. After all, I’m a liberal: Heart bleeds. Underbelly soft. Weeps easily.

I should be haranguing any nearby victim about the conspiratorial military-industrial complex grown even more powerful. I should be railing on about the Bush plan to take over the world (or am I supposed to complain about his isolationism? I’m so confused). I should be tsk-tsking that we’re going to find ourselves in another damned quagmire. I should be singing Where have all the flowers gone? damnit. And drinking French wine.

But I feel like dancing with those Iraqis in the streets. I cheer for the gigantic guy with the sledgehammer when he slams the marble plinth and douses Saddam’s picture in gas and set it afire (we liberals call that “acting out,” or perhaps I’m just projecting). Why, I even laughed when Donald Rumseld tried hard not to be smug today.

What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with our world?

10 responses to “Celebration”

  1. Doug Stewart Avatar
    Doug Stewart

    It’s “haranguing”. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=haranguing
    [/Grammar Nazi]
    Other than that, goodonya.

  2. Danjo Avatar
    Danjo

    Good one sir. My thoughts exactally.
    Danjo
    (I hope I spelled something wrong so Doug can correct me also.)

  3. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    [SLAP] Thanks. I needed that. I got too excited to type well.
    To paraphrase Ken Layne: We copyedit your ass, Jarvis.

  4. Mike G Avatar
    Mike G

    Trust me, I have lefty friends who are bemoaning this day, which absolutely staggers me. Remember when it was the Right (like Nixon and Kissinger) who were in favor of stability and propped-up strongmen, and the Left that rejoiced when statues were pulled down? That’s why I don’t just think I’m the one who’s moved over the years.

  5. Jackie D Avatar
    Jackie D

    An anti-war protester I know said to me tonight, “What’s there to celebrate?” My response: “I dunno — why don’t you ask those Iraqi people who are dancing in the streets and weeping tears of joy. Maybe they just found out Baghdad’s getting Vanilla Coke or summat.”
    It really must suck to be a war protester today.

  6. David Kenner Avatar
    David Kenner

    Hah! Great post. ANSWER is running a protest here in the District on Saturday. I think I’m going to show up — it’ll be a great time seeing all those dejected protesters. Protesting to end a war that’s basically ended in victory. Just classic.

  7. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    I think I’ll forgo that particular delight myself, even though I live in Northern VA…now that the war is well and truly won (if not, of course, over – I know we still have to secure Tikrit and the north), I can get back to normal pursuits like updating my website instead of spending almost every moment in front of my home computer poring over warblogs. But all the same, it’ll be very very interesting (and potentially hilarious) to see what those ANSWER goops make of all those Baghdadis using Saddam’s head for a Radio Flyer.

  8. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    Christopher Hitchens’ Slate piece on this: The war critics were right–just not in the way they expected, is just hilarious.

  9. John Irving Avatar
    John Irving

    http://xnerg.blogspot.com/
    skippy the bush kangaroo’s blog
    Down where skippy posts “max speaks, you listen” I challenge him on the torture chambers, mass graves, rape camps, and children’s prisons, and he replies that he hasn’t heard any news of these!
    Isn’t that remarkable.

  10. patrick Avatar
    patrick

    what a conundrum! what is wrong with us?
    perhaps, and this is a shot in the dark, for people who do not always view the world through blue or red-tinted glasses, they can see a bit more clearly.
    they can see goodness that is liberation in and of itself.