Local vs. Leviathan

Forget the old left vs. right split. These days, it's the Empire vs. the people. Or, if you will, the Establishment vs. the Rebellion. The Establishment is in the Reconstruction business. Both at home and abroad, it lusts for change, for creative destruction, for remaking the world in its image. Is it any wonder,then, that Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, two of the most prominent sponsors of the amnesty bill for illegal alien invaders, one supposedly a conservative, and the other a progressive, are cheerleading the Empire's faltering invasion of Iraq? Here they are in the War Street Journal trying to re-fan the flames of a dying war:

Unable to make the case that the surge has failed, antiwar forces have adopted a new set of talking points, emphasizing the "costs" of our involvement in Iraq, hoping to exploit Americans' current economic anxieties.

Today's antiwar politicians have effectively turned John F. Kennedy's inaugural address on its head, urging Americans to refuse to pay any price, or bear any burden, to assure the survival of liberty. This is wrong. The fact is that America's prosperity at home and security abroad are bound together. We will not fare well in a world in which al Qaeda and Iran can claim that they have defeated us in Iraq and are ascendant.

Wonder why they put the word costs in scare quotes? Are a trillion dollars (so far) and over 4,000 dead Americans not actual costs? And you have to love their euphemism for an aggressive war and occupation as an "involvement." Iraqis resisting an alien invader have other words for their relationship with Americans.

Of course, this is par for the course for Lindsey Graham. This alleged Southern senator denounced opponents of his amnesty bill as "bigots." He also said of the Confederate flag at a McCain rally in Spartanburg that he was "... glad that DAMN flag is gone."

After all, Reconstruction isn't possible until deconstruction is finished.