Fashion and Freedom or post hoc ergo prompter hoc

I promise you the greatest delight, deepest insights and a pleasant revigorating of your moral sense, which will give you hope: read Ilana Mercer's latest column on Antiwar.com:

Second Thoughts, First Principles

"Sadly, Americans (and our Fearless Leader) are capable of grasping only a Disneyfied version of majority rule, not the Middle Eastern version. This is why they doggedly conflate democracy with freedom, and "the freedom to vote" with liberty. Here's a useful tip for Fields [CB: This is Townhall.com's "scribbler" (Ilana's expression) and "Hail-Bush-er" (mine) Suzanne Fields]: voting is synonymous with freedom only if strict limits are placed on the powers of elected officials and only if individual rights are respected."

"In Bushite theology, any injustice is pardonable so long as, in retrospect, some good can be attached to it."

"The Bush administration is less clever than the merest child, for it believes it has discovered "something better than truth, and justice, and universal law." The deplorable achievement of Fields and her fellow travelers is to have persuaded Americans to adopt the same conceit."

From Ilana's long essay (a true major broadside) I chose the above short quotes, as they are important statements and conclusions I agree with as they are fully compatible with my own views as expressed on my sites, even if I would prefer to go "somewhat" [rather a lot! ;-)] further in individual-anarchist radicalism than the conservative or classical liberal (or Randian minarchist) position expressed in the first quote. But the promised real delight, the real insights, the real moral strength (like fresh out of a wellness center) will come from her unsurpassed language (smiling or laughing because of her language trouvailles will no doubt cost you less than some wellness resort and you escape the risk of maybe meeting there the neocon lady folks she describes) and from the brilliant developments leading to those statements and conclusions.

You will see that "Genghis Bush", taking a war for a spin, nekkid (like that child did in the story of the emperor's clothes) or, why not, in a fashionable abaya "of his making". The rank and file over there will have to buy it for $49.99. So much for fashion and freedom.