The rats are jumping off the sinking ship - - A conservative's conversion moment
Saul/Paul couldn't do it better.
via Raw Story | Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald | Rod Dreher: "Hadn't the hippies tried to tell my generation this"?
Today, Dreher has an extraordinary (oral) essay at NPR in which he recounts how the conduct of President Bush (for whom he voted twice) in the Iraq War (which he supported) is causing him to question, really to abandon, the core political beliefs he has held since childhood....
On 9/11, Dreher's first thought was : "Thank God we have a Republican in the White House." The rest of his essay:
But almost four years later, I see that I was the fool.... As I sat in my office last night watching President Bush deliver his big speech, I seethed over the waste, the folly, the stupidity of this war.
I had a heretical thought for a conservative - that I have got to teach my kids that they must never, ever take Presidents and Generals at their word - that their government will send them to kill and die for noble-sounding rot - that they have to question authority.
On the walk to the parking garage, it hit me. Hadn't the hippies tried to tell my generation that? Why had we scorned them so blithely?