Kn@ppster
by Thomas L. Knapp

07/28/05

Political division on the war issue is already beginning to transform itself from 'for' and 'against' to 'knew it was a bad idea all along' and 'we could have won if it hadn't been for those people who kept insisting on bringing up inconvenient facts and sapping our morale.' This latter position is just a natural outgrowth of politics. Admitting error is difficult. Admitting multiple and massive errors is wrenching. Admitting total error is damn near impossible. We're going to have to learn to live with the fact that the neoconservatives will never, ever, ever be able to bring themselves even to the point of Arthur Fonzarelli's 'I was wr ... wrrrrrr ... wro ... well, you know what I mean.' They will go to their graves believing that imminent and glorious victory, followed by world hegemony, was within their reach, and that Justin Raimondo stole it from them. Look closely. The 'we were defeated at home meme' is already starting to grow like mold on the rotting underside of the Jacobin blogosphere...

http://knappster.blogspot.com/2005/07/things-fall-apart.html