Dum Pendebat Filius

Pity Charles Krauthammer. The poor man hasn’t had a glass of wingnut Kool-Aid in weeks, such is the unslakable thirst of David Horowitz. Look at this entry from “David’s Blog”:

The Best Defense
I received this email from Lawrence Auster, a regular FrontPage contributor and author of the View From The Right blog:

Would you agree that our fighting terrorists in Iraq does not prevent terrorists from attacking us in the West, if they intend and seek to do so?

My Answer

This formulation is a problem. By attacking the terrorists in Iraq we have 1) damaged their command structure; 2) drawn their energies and their fighters into a zone where they are confronting our military not our civilians; 3) put them on the defensive and off balance so that a lot of their attention is going into Iraq and not New York.

Obviously this doesn’t prevent them from attacking us in the West if they intend to and seek to AND have the available manpower and resources left over after defending themselves to do so. What is remarkable (and of course taken for granted by all critics) is that they haven’t been able to do so for nearly four years. Thank you George Bush.

Can you hear the throaty rumble, the triumphant declamation of Oh, Yeaahh, as Kool-Aid Man smashes through the chain-link playground fence, bearing refreshing draughts of wingnuttia for David Horowitz, who’s sweaty and thirsty from a long afternoon of shooting hoops and writing semi-coherent encomia to himself and his intellectual odyssey?

Readers, Iraq was absolutely chock-full of terrorists, both before and after 9/11. That’s why we invaded that country: to bring the fight to the terrorists, right where they live. Iraq was a regular Honeycomb Hideout for terrorists. We went over there in order to attack them. We have “damaged their command structure.” We’re “drawing them into a zone,” attracting all terrorists to come and get a taste of our rough frontier justice. Those terrorists are “on the defensive.”

And damn if it isn’t all working out pretty well, despite the lies of the America-hating liberal mass media. “The terrorists” haven’t attacked us in the West for “nearly four years,” right? That’s because of the remarkable military foresight and stern leadership of President Bush, who invaded Iraq in order to keep you and me safe from The Terrorists… Thank you, Thighmaster.

Is there any wingnut talking point Horowitz didn’t manage to hit in that brilliantly concise fruit-punch-flavored eructation? How many examples of petitio principii (a.k.a. “begging the question”) can you find in that brief excerpt from “David’s Blog”?