Bobo Strikes Again

David Brooks puts another whopper of an editorial in today's New York Times. He compares the Iraqi voters to Whittaker Chambers, saying that both "have spent their lives in hell and cannot have been unaffected by it." This is a simply idiotic metaphor. To argue that a communist in America before and during World War II has lived through the same type of experience as an Iraqi under 25 years of Saddam Hussein and 2 years of American invasion and terrorism shows simply no understanding of the American communist movement. This isn't surprising. I don't expect any kind of subtlety from Brooks.

What's truly laughable is that he goes on to criticize Democratic senators for not supporting the war. So is Ted Kennedy Brooks' Alger Hiss? Does he really believe that opposition to this war is comparable to spying for the Soviet Union? For that matter, he puts Brent Scowcroft on the same level as Kennedy. Brooks didn't come out and directly make this comparison. But the analogy is clear.

UPDATE (2/2/05) This is a highly edited version of this post. I wrote it in a great hurry last night and sort of left out half a sentence. Whoops!!