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Sunday, February 06, 2005

"Kidnapped," Dr. Cole??? 
Juan Cole is flinging poo at Jonah Goldberg.

Goldberg helped send nearly 1500 brave Americans to their deaths and helped maim over 10,000, not to mention all the innocent Iraqi civilians he helped get killed. He helped dragoon 140,000 US troops in Iraq. And he does not have the courage of his convictions. His excuse is that he couldn't afford to take the pay cut!

What is Goldberg going to say to the tens of thousands of reservists he helped send to Iraq, who are losing their mortgages and small businesses and have been kidnapped for 18 months at a time (not what they thought they were signing up for) by Rumsfeld? "Well guys, thanks for carrying out the policy I wanted to see, and for putting your own little girls into penury. I'd have loved to help out, but my little girl is more important than yours and besides, I like a good meal and I hear you only get MREs."

A reader at Atrios's Eschaton suggested this Salon profile of Goldberg.

The complete list of logical fallacies involved in Goldberg's further comments and those of his fans is at Norbizness.


Juan Cole's mention of logical fallacies is pretty rich, given the fact that, according to Juan Cole's own logic, Cole helped Saddam slaughter kill millions of Iranians, slaughter tens of thousands of Kurds and Shias, rape thousands of women, disappear political opponents, and subject thousands more to torture and mutilation.

Because that's what you'd have to say about anyone who supported a policy that would have allowed Saddam to remain in power.

Cole's own reliance on the logical fallacy of argument from authority -- i.e., "I'm right because I'm an expert." as opposed to "I'm right because it's clear that the evidence supports my position and cannot support this other position -- is laughable, considering his own prediliction for making stupid claims about subjects he knows nothing about, such as military tactics.

Juan Cole's still crapping all over the Iraqi election, along with the usual suspects. Apparently, he believes that ruler responsible for the wholesale rape, torture, and murder of untold women ought to have been left in power.

But Cole goes even lower:

What is Goldberg going to say to the tens of thousands of reservists he helped send to Iraq, who are losing their mortgages and small businesses and have been kidnapped for 18 months at a time (not what they thought they were signing up for) by Rumsfeld? "Well guys, thanks for carrying out the policy I wanted to see, and for putting your own little girls into penury. I'd have loved to help out, but my little girl is more important than yours and besides, I like a good meal and I hear you only get MREs."


Well, Doctor Cole, I wasn't kidnapped. I took an oath. Like the rest of the people who serve. I've known thousands of soldiers, but don't know a single soul who thought that signing up for the reserves or National Guard excluded a deployment overseas. I mean, given the arms rooms full of 50 cal. machine guns and the motor pools full of M1 tanks in Guard brigades, how ignorant do you have to be to think that the Guard and reserves are only for floods and hurricanes?

Well, the answer is pretty ignorant.

Which says something about Juan Cole, huh?

No, Dr. Cole, I wasn't "kidnapped." I lead men, not victims. Maybe that's not a distinction you are readily equipped to comprehend, but I am.

No, Jonah Goldberg didn't "put his ass in the kill zone," as your reader put it. Jonah Goldberg freely chose not to join the military, just as our troops freely enlisted. Goldberg is no less of a man for it.

As one who's ass DID wind up in the kill zone, and one who's ass may well wind up there again, I have more respect for an ardent supporter of freedom and democracy than I have for a thousand cynical apologists for tyrrany.

Splash, out

Jason

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