A few days ago at Talk Left Big Tent Democrat wrote a piece on his take on Matt Stoller’s and Glen Greenwald’s position on the Iraq war. In short he characterizes the position if not as defeatist, then somehow improperly resigned pessimism. Big Tando Dem quotes their willingness to cede the issue to a post-Bush world optimistically also known as “2009”. I agree with him on various things here: that Stoller is an ineffective activist and pundit both, except to be fair, I’m not paying attention, he could be brilliant and I wouldn’t know, I do not follow him at all except as he arises from time to time regarding things like Townhouse List or the “More $$$ for Bloggers! Movement”™.
Glen defends himself with this reply that leads to the point here:
Feel free to cheer for the war’s end. I do the same. But that doesn’t make it likely to happen.
And if Democrats are failing to stop the war – as they are – why should anyone refrain from being honest and saying so?
To which BigTentDemocrat replies:
But the question is why? To pressure them to react and do the right thing? OR to just say so?
We all have eyes. The question is what we want them to do and how to make them do it, if we can.