This comment on willzhead is a perfect example of how false premises can take one far into “the world” and far away from being at a spot where one can truly look critically at the world. This commenter disagreed with Will, and a few others did, but I AGREED whole heartedly. Even so, it will never happen. The Bush team are the ones who constructed this whole version of reality in the first place (proceeding with a great deal of apriori assumptions, like “the way the world is” and “today’s realities”, and then proceeding to the next “logical”, “common sense steps”.

It is a perfect example of what I call “ceding completely to statecraft”. Who cares about what is “common wisdom” for “Postive Redeeming Value”? How about “the truth” for starters, as a “postive”. When the truth becomes “inconvenient” and is seen as void of “postive redeeming value”, I wonder what kind of moral universe that person lives in.

from a comment under willzhead: It Is Time For George Bush To Apologize

quotes from the comment:

To have him admit pubilically at this point in history that his decisions were motivated out of revenge and that he used coercion to insert the U.S. into the war has not one Positive Socially redeeming value. In fact I think it would make him even more derelect in the duties of his office.

Right now, it is my contention, that such a public confirmation could throw the stability of our country and visa vi the world into such turbulance as we have never seen before. Justice will be served particularly where this man is concerned either in this life or the next. Now is not the time for apologies. Now is the time to remain steadfast with resolve, if he flinch’s he makes up more vulnerable than before 9-11.

“Now is the time to remain steadfast with resolve, if he flinch’s he makes up more vulnerable than before 9-11.”

Which world perspective has he already swallowed, hook line and sinker? Exactly the one Bush and the neocons want him to. Obviously, he buys the whole scenario. “They’re trying to break our resolve, just as they tried to do on 9/11” (or did he say “just as the hijackers or the terrorists did on 9/11”. It’s now hard to remember, so often has Bush tied the two together (which he does here, no matter whether he said “they” (thus directly tying it the insurgents and the 9/11 hijackers together) or if he said “the 9/11 hijackers” , in which case he is slyly associating the two to maintain the connection)