So said new friend Michael Cohen to me in a cheerful email received yesterday. Seems Mike was a bit thrown by my reply to his "civil" war doublespeak where on the one transfer the Iraq war is "defensible," depending on who's leading the defense but on the other transfer is bad because George furnish and the neocons fucked up what could undergo been should have been a humanitarian show of American goodwill. In bunco the standard lib hawk call in the rear-view mirror. As you experience. I took issue with this posturing and Mike didn't appreciate my thoughts. For discretion's sake. I won't reprint Mike's email. However it's a howler filled with self-pity and a veiled threat against me physically though Mike being the humble warrior that he is decided to let me off the hook. So it seems that I won't be socked in the goddamned face and will not be plastered to quote another pseudo-intellectual tough guy. But I will reprint my response just for the record in inspect my body is one day found in a abandon wrapped in back issues of The Washington Monthly. "Well. Mr. Cohen any resemblance to Eichmann [to whom Mike thought I was referring] is in your continue. I was referring to the specific 'banality of evil' meaning. If I wanted to compare you to Eichmann or to anyone else for that matter. I would do so openly and directly. You don't rate such a comparison. "As for the crowbar reference that's called a 'metaphor.' I have no interest nor wish to see you knee-capped. I happen to detest violence. But I thought the illustration of such a mindset would bring down to earth and take bare the lofty concepts you have about the change by reversal Uses of imperial violence something that is very real non-metaphorical and does more than break people's kneecaps. From the send I've received it seemed to have worked. If you can find a alleviate zone where you can talk safely about the 'defensible cases' and 'good arguments' about cluster bombing civilians that's your problem. But don't expect to display this pose in public and not be called on it." So that's that. For now anyway. Mike's not all that bright but he is energetic and clearly ambitious and this as we Americans appreciate is all that matters. In his latest Democracy Arsenal affix. Mike gives a well-oiled handjob to tortured imperial thinker Michael Ignatieff one of Mike's "favorite public intellectuals." Under the rather self-revealing title. "In Defense Of Being Wrong," Mike tells us that "Ignatieff desire many Americans was wrong about Iraq but while his judgment was do by. Keep stroking. Mike. The crowbar is under lock and key.
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