Shut Up And Sing

http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/shut_and_sing?tx=3

Submitted by Rick Perlstein on July 6, 2007 - 10:47am.

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius makes a fundamentally authoritarian argument this morning:

Based on the tone of the national debate today, it seems likely that the American public would react angrily — but not just at the terrorists.

Liberals would blame the Bush administration for making America a more vulnerable target. Didn’t the war in Iraq inflame Muslim terrorists around the world? Wouldn’t we have been safer today if we had focused on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan rather than embarking on a costly war that has sapped the military and CIA and added to America’s enemies? These arguments aren’t imaginary: We hear them every day, almost as rehearsals for the post-attack finger-pointing.