War Of The Worlds

by digby

I’ve had several friends write to me to point out that John Adams represented British soldiers in the Revolutionary War which means that Lynne Cheney’s charge that lawyers are suspected traitors for representing terrorists suspects is obviously wrong. One would think so. But as I have tried and tried to impress upon you people for years, that comparison fails to recognize that today we are dealing with a foe so terrifying, so powerful, so existentially threatening that it cannot be compared to any enemy the world has ever known, much less any enemy the United States has faced. (Sure, the British trying to end the very existence of the new country before it began might be considered an existential threat by some, but that’s wrong because the British weren’t all foreign and icky.)

The threat of Islamic fundamentalism is so unique so unparalleled in human experience that we must completely abandon all of our civilized institutions and constitutional principles and react like feral animals. It’s all they understand. It’s our only hope.

If you aren’t fouling your trousers every single day at the knowledge that everything you know and love is in imminent danger of being torn asunder by Muslim fanatics with box cutters, you are simply not a serious person.

Update: A reader reminds me that John Adams defended the British for the Boston Massacre, which happened, coincidentally, 240 years ago today. Clearly, John Adams was a traitor to America.

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