Dana Milbank is an Ass

Paul Wolfowitz is the President of the World Bank and a former assistant defense secretary. He gave a speech to the National Press Club (to quote Paul Mirengoff of Powerline) “on the role of trade in reducing poverty in Africa and other underdeveloped regions. Today, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post has an account of the speech, or rather its atmospherics -- the substance Wolfowitz's remarks about trade and poverty is of no interest to Milbank. In fact, Milbank seems to consider it evasive of the World Bank President to deliver a speech about issues relating to the Bank's mission, when he could have been, in Milbank's phrase, saying he was sorry for the war in Iraq.”

Now Dana Milbank would probably resent it if he were described as the best friend of Islamofascists and the Saddams of this world. But how else can we describe the political positions of a man who is sorry that Saddam is gone and that we are meeting the Islamofascists in Iraq rather than hunkered down waiting for the next planeload of suicide bombers? Because that is necessarily the inevitable conclusion we can draw from this cretin when he obviously thinks that “Wolfie” (as he calls him) should be saying he’s sorry for supporting this war.

It should be remembered that even World War 2 had its opponents in both America and Europe. It should not surprise us that the Dana Milbanks, sitting safe and secure in their offices in Washington, should have so little regard for the freedom and the lives of the people in the Middle East, that they are perfectly happy to consign them to torture and mass death in the service of cheap political points on the home front.