Friday, May 2, 2008

McCain's 100 Years comment

It's actually very easy to explain. McCain wants troops to stay in Iraq, regardless of whether there's violence or not or whether they're needed or not, because he wants to continue his policy of rogue-state rollback. He wants America to have more power and leverage in the region, he wants us to be a player over there, perhaps because of oil and terrorism but certainly because of his Hemingway-imbibed love of war and empire. That's why his reasons for why he wants troops in Iraq forever aren't compelling--there really isn't a reason, he just wants 'em there, and he's trying to find a politic way of rationalizing it. He'd better come up with one pretty damn soon, and it had better be damn good. It's not like McCain's got a lot of slack to work with on the Iraq question.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.