I have one niggling problem with the … echo chamber… bullet points regarding Bush’s John McCain campaign Knesset foray into historical discussion.  The other bullet points are dead on, and in addition I do have a “what was your problem with the Dixie Chicks in England?” question running through my head.  Everyone keeps pointing out that the Senator Bush is quoting about wishing he could go talk with Hitler, and this is actually by way of Truman, was a Republican.  This point simply has no bearing on this discussion, as fallacious as everything else about the matter might be.

The classic misuse of this historical fallacy is the canard about how the Civil Rights was passed with a greater Republican vote than Democratic vote, as though the donkey and elephant are set in stone.  We may compare the 1864 Democratic Party rallies which consisted of the anti-Republican anthem “N–ger Doodle Dandy” and compare it with what we will see in 2008 and see that… things change.

But there aren’t any true isolationists in the Congress of the pre-Pearl Harbor type.  There are isolation-ish arguments, and isolationist strawmen.  The isolation-ish arguments don’t add up to disengagement from the world tend to come in because in a sound-b yte world, it’s a good short circuit and getting bogged down is never good politically.  More honest than the Chamberlain analogy, which the gut feeling tends to come down to a thought along the lines of where one of Chris Matthews’ few great moments leads us.

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Always interesting to note these things:

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