Reply #27: Juan Cole - A Social History of the Surge

[bobd0]

McCain is drastically oversimplifying, ignoring, and in some cases outright lying about events in Iraq and their effects prior to and during "the surge". And the MSM talking heads, like Moron Joe and his embarrassingly ditsy sidekick Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC, repeat McCain's oversimplifications to simpletons until they become accepted political dogma.

"EVERYONE knows the surge worked!"

Yeah, right.

http://www.juancole.com/2008/07/social-history-of-surge.html

Understanding complex events is hard work and most Americans have no stomach for that type of hard work. So, unfortunately, oversimplification is what many Americans crave -- ergo the success of the Republican Party. They know their target audience and its capacity, or lack thereof, to research or comprehend complex events.

I have very little faith that the American electorate will take the time or make the effort to fully understand this or any other issue. That's how we wind up with intellectually lazy idiots in power like Bush -- because so many Americans are intellectually lazy idiots just like him.

Present company, of course, excluded.

This is why I fear we could wind up with an intellectually lazy idiot like "I can't find the internet" McCain as president -- and, God forbid, four more years.