Doubleplusgood Post…

… from Billmon, who demonstrates in this related post that, in politics these days, the better analyst is the bigger pessimist:

…While an abrupt, overnight switch in the propaganda machine’s output from stay-the-course-forever to cut-and-run-to victory might grate on the ears of those of us who still haven’t quite adjusted to the Fox News era, I doubt the vast majority of the American people will care — or even notice. They’ll just be happy that the war is “over” and the boys and girls will be coming home, allowing them to forget the whole disagreeable business. Anyone who believes otherwise must have slept through the last few elections.

Sooner or later, of course, the clueless idiots will find out that the war — the real war, the war for the Middle East — isn’t over, and isn’t likely to be over in their lifetimes, or even their children’s lifetimes. But it’s probably safe to assume that the first Tuesday in November will have come and gone by then.

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