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There must be various explanations why so many of us cannot flat-out distinguish between right and wrong, smart and dumb, evil and good, or stasis and action — period. ... For better or worse, we have now crossed the Rubicon with Iraq, thereby assuring oppressed peoples that help is on the way, and warning terrorist enemies and duplicitous friends that the Middle East is soon to be altered in ways they should fear.[via lgf]
It's interesting how he's attacking what he calls the "deductive" crowd, meaning people who spew scholastic word-salads with no connection to reality, instead of adhering to facts and evidence. But (!) he wants us to use "therefore" -- the crucible of deduction... I think a better word for what he's attacking is "sophistry" -- since the idiotarians are usually despicable sophists, a type of scourge that repeatedly endangered Ancient Greece.
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