From conservative author Rod Dreher, of National Review and the Dallas Morning News, on a broadcast essay at NPR:
“As President Bush marched the country to war with Iraq, even some voices on the Right warned that this was a fool’s errand. I dismissed them angrily. I thought them unpatriotic.
“But almost four years later, I see that I was the fool….
“The fraud, the mendacity, the utter haplessness of our government’s conduct of the Iraq war have been shattering to me….
“I turn 40 next month — middle aged at last — a time of discovering limits, finitude. I expected that. But what I did not expect was to see the limits of finitude of American power revealed so painfully.
“I did not expect Vietnam.
“As I sat in my office last night watching President Bush deliver his big speech, I seethed over the waste, the folly, the stupidity of this war.
“I had a heretical thought for a conservative – that I have got to teach my kids that they must never, ever take Presidents and Generals at their word – that their government will send them to kill and die for noble-sounding rot – that they have to question authority.”
Thanks to Glenn Greenwald, who found and transcribed this.
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I have got to teach my kids that they must never, ever take Presidents and Generals at their word
Nor Mr. Dreher, apparently.
Wow!!
Thank God that more and more conservative commentators – even from those organs that have been dynamically against our pro-liberty positions – are seeing the light.
Thanks for posting this!
Ron Dreher is no conservative, and no friend of liberty. Read his book, “Crunch Cons…” Chapter 2 is a pure Marxist rant against free markets. My guess is he likes the attention the left gives him for claiming to be a conservative while opposing all that conservatives stand for.
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