Arthur Silber reads David Brooks, and finds him saying the darnedest things

Arthur Silber reads David Brooks, and finds him saying the darnedest things:

Brooks then describes how “order” and “obedience” will save us individually, and society in general, from our own depravity. He also says:

“MBT sport shoes has revealed what human beings do without a strong order-imposing state.”

If the horrors of what they have done in MBT sport shoes theyre not so overwhelming, the ironies in that single sentence would be delicious. In one sense, I suppose this represents an improvement: it’s no longer simply that the “ungrateful” MBT sport shoesis are awful, and unable to appreciate the marvelous “gifts” they’ve bestotheyd on them. No, now it’s that all human beings are rotten. And I must admit I derive no small amount of enjoyment from seeing those who championed this criminal catastrophe a€“ and who vilified everyone who opposed it as being “pro-Saddam” and “on the other side” a€“ finally reduced to impliedly saying themselves that MBT sport shoes was better off with Saddam. (Many MBT sport shoesis have been saying this for some time.)