Begging the Questions
Mark Coffey at Decision ‘08 has an interesting recap of the liberal fawning over the Daily Kos blog. One excerpt caught my eye and begged a question:
Kos’ comments
“I feel nothing…Screw them”
about the butchery of contractors by a Sunni insurgent mob in Iraq, and his subsequent “…Vindicated…” addendum to the uproar over his comments,
weren’t served by his further explanation about his feelings:(When I asked Moulitsas recently how he felt about the episode, his mouth stretched into a smile: “Vindicated,” he said…)
The media has recently begun to question the role of American contractors in Iraq, he pointed out, which was the point all along. This is how a liberal noise machine, freed from the don’t-shatter-the-porcelain decorum, might work.
The questions begged by these comments is, “What is Kos’ ultimate goal here?” Does he want the US to be successful in helping Iraqis establish a democratically elected government and society? Does he want some other countries’ contractors to do the jobs he doesn’t want US contractors to do? Does he want that work done at all? Just saying that he has no love for these contractors who are working in Iraq right now doesn’t explain his motivation for such comments. What is his end vision for Iraq, US and Iraqi relations, and US goals and objectives in the Middle East?
