It's a Mad, Mad World

At least you'll emerge from reading Victor Hanson's latest article reminded that the chattering classes suffer, at best, from attention deficit disorder. He contrasts the reality of Iraq today with the long litany of dire warnings from critics of the war -- or better, critics of all things American except their right to harp endlessly about their country. For example:

"In the middle of a war demand the resignation of both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who oversaw two successful wars that deposed the two worst regimes in the Middle East in less than an aggregate eleven weeks. Pay as little attention as possible to horrific footage of American civilians burned alive and desecrated or to Jewish-American citizens beheaded on tape. Instead get up each morning damning the United States military in the field for the moral lapses and despicable, un-American behavior of a few untrained guards in an ex-charnel house that was occasionally shelled while they interrogated some of the worst criminals on the planet."

But he ends with constructive advice:

"[K]eep reminding the American people how much has been accomplished and how rare is our effort to defeat fascism and leave consensual government in its wake—and do that every day."

I have a feeling most people know that instinctively. Today, as at all times, the trick is knowing what to be concerned about and what to ignore.