tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post116563881750021000..comments2023-10-26T06:26:18.223-04:00Comments on yave begnet: the Economist--just say noyavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01434935209549959812noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13094296.post-1165641579738494212006-12-09T00:19:00.000-05:002006-12-09T00:19:00.000-05:00I too notice (along with many of the left-leaning ...I too notice (along with many of the left-leaning commentariat) that the only people we really need to take seriously on the Iraq issue are those who first supported the war but now don’t. Somehow those who said it would end in disaster from the beginning are too extreme, not responsible or serious enough to be listened to. They happen to have been right, but being spot on about the outcome won’t cut it—they were right at the wrong time. It’s like the people who left the communist party too soon back in Stalin’s era—OK, said the true-believers of leftist orthodoxy, we realize Stalin was a mass murderer now, but you were wrong to criticize him then, so even though you were objectively correct then, it was too early, so we won’t take you seriously. It’s a human thing I guess, maybe whenever groupthink, ideology, and orthodoxy trump what is before our eyes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com