The Greatest Doughy Pantload

by digby

It’s a sad day when Jonah Goldberg’s shallow little musings are in Robert Sheer’s space on the LA Times op-ed page. His first column features the word “moonbats” and compares FDR to Bush explaining that great presidents lie to us for our own good. He even tells us that we didn’t know WWII was a “good war” until the Holocaust and Hollywood showed us this was true. History, you see, will show that George W. Bush, like FDR, will be remembered as a great president even though he lied because of his bold action in the middle east.

Apparently, he remains blind to the fact that Iraq threatened no one at the time we invaded — and that post world war II, the main legal argument against Germany was that it engaged in a war of aggression. (Germans could have disagreed, of course, arguing that they were only following the “Hitler Pre-emption Doctrine.” We would not have found that persuasive.)

I think it’s rather sad that these doughy little boys dream so of being a Greater Generation that they have to pretend that Iraq, or even the threat of Islamic terrorism, is on the scale of WWII. If FDR lied about WWII, at least we knew at the time that the German and Japanese threat to Europe and China was real — they were invading all over the place; the argument was always about whether it was real to the US until Pearl Harbor. In those days “the national interest” was a fetish for the right. Today, not so much.

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