Anti-Climacus

LINK: Tacitus makes a great point:

"It also has the (rather more questionable) virtue of contributing to the electoral smashing of Aznar's party. Kos says that "Spain's rulling party [is] just the latest casualty of Bush's folly." I guess "Bush's folly" includes the war in Afghanistan; certainly al Qaeda thinks so. Remember that as you hear, see and read politically-motivated dull-wittedness along these lines in coming days. I have argued that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, initially connected only on an arguable conceptual level, are now inseparable parts of the same campaign. The inability to recognize this -- and the concurrent inability to grasp that defeat in one arena heartens and directly aids the enemy in the other -- is a surefire sign of one's politics overriding one's sense. The public manifestation of this moral and conceptual failure among the standard-bearers of the European and American left is just another sad chapter in the history of a movement that more readily sees existential threats in conservative Christian political activism than in Muslim massacres of hundreds of innocents in New York and Madrid."