Another Anti-War Figure Crosses the Crazy Line

It’s a black day for the anti-war folks.

In today’s Washington Post, Pete Hegseth, executive director of Vets for Freedom, has coauthored an op-ed with…wait for it…Major General John Batiste.

Batiste, you will remember, is the formerly “antiwar” general who spoke out against Donald Rumsfeld, and who, until recently, was a Board Member of VoteVets.org (the antiwar MoveOn.org vets front group).

There are two stories here: 1) A formerly anti-war general flips on supporting the war, and now believes Petraeus has the right strategy; and 2) Batiste has left VoteVets.org, and the antiwar movement, and joined up with the pro-troop, pro-surge, pro-victory Vets for Freedom.

The evidence is now nigh-incontrovertable that the surge and General Petraeus’ counterinsurgency strategies the surge allowed to play out are working very well. One wonders when the anti-war left will stop butting their hard heads against the brick wall of reality.

Me, I don’t care if they ever stop. I’m amused when I see one of them get up a good head of steam and try to take on the wall. Watching them stagger back, clearly minus a few more chunks of rational mind but with a death-grip on their delusions amuses me to no end. It alarms me a little bit that one day these folks will be in charge of things – perhaps even really important things – but our Republic has weathered worse. It can weather a few of these geniuses running a few government agencies or companies into the ground, too.

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