“Who wants to give their mother-in-law a GLOCK?”

OR:

“Empty a couple of clips into the kids and they’ll learn to behave”

Evidently; “The National Review Online”, screens submissions critical of it’s, “Blog Row”, contributors’ ‘pensées’ rather carefully. At least, they have eschewed my submissions.

I tendered a comment on a posting by Andy McCarthy on Tuesday that NRO preferred not to append; but, I am not about to let the matter go unredressed. Mr. McCarthy’s piece purports to lend support for a policy that would increase US Military aggression and violence in Iraq with the idea this would help Iraq conform to the exigencies of democracy. The essence of his thesis can be deduced from the following quote:

“I think it’s possible Americans could be persuaded that we must step it up and achieve an unambiguous military victory in Iraq to prevent terrorists from winning a share of power in an outcome that would be a humiliating defeat of the U.S…” [Andy McCarthy, “YOU'VE GOT TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY FIRST” thecorner@nationalreview.com 4/4/2006]

Mr. McCarthy's problem analysis and prescription is based upon Reuel Marc Gerecht's problem analysis and prescription [Wall Street Journal, April. 4/06] which in turn is predicated upon the Department of Defense’s problem analysis and prescription for the ‘disastrophe’ in Iraq. It must have taken some really deep thinking. Odds are, many NRO readers will feel enlightened by Andy’s piece; especially those who think, "hindsight", is the view you get when you have your head stuck up your own; really deep.

But there is a sizable contingency who prefer the view by daylight; those who, like Mrs. Lincoln, are still over-awed by images of a reality unlimned by the narrow and peculiar ‘focus’ of hacks writing critical reviews for the morrows entertainment columns.

The US Military has no business being in Iraq. It’s presence there resembles having a ‘pistol packin’ mother-in-law smash down your door, trash your house (including all the utilities), casually surrender your photo-albums and family heirlooms to looters, then park her butt on what’s left of your couch and proceed to tell you what’s wrong with your marriage; at gunpoint. Like the 'Mother-in-Law from Hell', she is oblivious of the fact that the upheaval she cites as justification for her presence is a direct result of her lying and meddling in the first place.

Mr. McCarthy’s prescription is to give the witch more bullets and a mandate to wing the kids by way of trying to re-establish domestic harmony.

00Buck

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