i can't say that i had a space in my mind that was waiting to find out what the neo-fascist take on mc-chyrstal and/or afghanistan was, but now i know it.
and it's the classical thing: democracy is bad because it involves and endless debate, endless abstractions---in the cretin-speak of the article above, that is coded as "cluelessness"---what's required is the manly man Action of a Leader, someone who is a kind of combo-platter of Steely-Eyed Manly Man stuff and a technocrat, so a general really, someone who believes in the mission of national purification on military grounds and the greater Destiny of the volk and who i knows how to play the bureaucratic game while remaining all Steely-Eyed Manly Man about things. so what matters in this neo-fascist fantasyland, is the Appearance of Control. and stuff like Resolve, which is a nice word.
so the neo-fascist take of mc-chyrstal's pathetic rolling stone piece and on the afghan war more generally is a repellent exercise in nostalgia for the good-old-days of the bush administration.
and who is peter heck?
The Peter Heck Show - FRIDAY
an ultra-right wing christian radio talking head.
he appears to publish his columns on his webspace and they circulate through the network of reactionary blogs and messageboards. the dateline is a nice touch. it gives the impression that the source might be other than a webspace maintained by some neo-fascist christian fundamentalist.
well, there is a paper that publishes his columns. it brings you "news from a christian perspective." the about page is kinda interesting:
OneNewsNow.com - Your News Right Now
funny stuff.