Orson Scott Card Has Plenty to Say

[billroper]

In this article, author Orson Scott Card has a great deal to say about the situation in Iraq. It's entirely likely that many of you will disagree with him. Heck, I'm sure that I don't agree with him about everything.

On the other hand, I don't always agree with myself about everything...

Comments

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I think Mr. Card falls into that category of observer who desperately wants to believe that his country, and most importantly, his president, is acting in the best possible way, given the facts that he is aware of at any given time.

When it becomes clearly evident that the President, and by extension, the government, has acted in error, by deliberately ignoring facts that disagree with what the President wanted to do, covering and back-filling become the order of the day. The Eager Believer seizes on the backfill attempts as a man lost at sea clings to a life preserver.

I'm afraid that this is what OSC is doing in this article: clinging to the life preserver of Unintended Results, and wishing, hoping, praying that the President is doing the right thing *right now* even though he didn't do the right thing in the past.

Meanwhile, the best predicter of future results is past history. Anyone looking at the past history of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq cannot fail to realize that huge mistakes were made at every step of those actions. So they are in effect hoping that the President will do something different the next time around. Why should he? If he gets re-elected, it's a mandate to 'Stay the Course.'

It really is disturbing that people with the intellect of OSC are falling into the pit of believing what they're told over what they can see with their own eyes.