The Foreigner's Gift - Overblown Metaphors?

Paul Krugman writes;

The Bushies, it seems, like starting fights, but they don’t believe in paying any of the cost ... Above all, they don’t believe that they or their friends should face any ... penalties for trivial sins like distorting intelligence to get America into an unnecessary war, or totally botching that war’s execution...

Think Progress has a summary of what happened to the men behind the war... To read that summary is to be awed by the ... generosity of the neocon welfare system. Even Paul Wolfowitz, who ... mess[ed] up ... two high-level jobs, has found refuge at the American Enterprise Institute.

Which brings us to ... I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. ... In an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal titled “Fallen Soldier,” Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University cited the soldier’s creed: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” He went on to declare that “Scooter Libby was a soldier in your — our — war in Iraq.”

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Fallen Soldier

The prosecutor, and the jury and the judge, had before them a case that purported to stand alone, a trial of one man's memory and recollections. But you have before you what they and the rest of us don't--a memory of the passions and the panic, and the certitude, which gave rise to the war. And a sense, I am confident, of the quiet and selfless man who sat in the outer circle when your cabinet deliberated over our country's choices in Iraq, and in those burning grounds of the Arab-Islamic world. Scooter Libby was there for the beginning of that campaign. He can't be left behind as a casualty of a war our country had once proudly claimed as its own

Shuster Rips Neoconservative Ajami For Comparing Scooter Libby To Fallen U.S. Soldiers