Once again, I'm indebted…

…to a fellow blogger for spotting the rare point of clarity in the output of the wingnut punditocracy. This time it's Carla at Preemptive Karma, who quotes Pat Buchanan's look at the research of terrorism authority Robert Pape...

What Pape is saying is that the neocons' "World War IV" – our invading Islamic countries to overthrow regimes and convert them into democracies – is suicidal, like stomping on an anthill so as not to be bitten by ants. It is the presence of U.S. troops in Islamic lands that is the progenitor of suicide terrorism.

Bush's cure for terrorism is a cause of the epidemic. The doctor is spreading the disease...

When they're right, they're right. Even when they're far right.