You have to hand it to Jonah Goldberg. His opinion columns are well-written, usually contain obscure facts that few people know–and are unerringly wrong about every subject on which he writes. In one of his latest screeds against liberals, “Certainly, certainty has a place in life,” Goldberg criticizes the critics of certainty. He implicitly criticizes U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for his statement about President Bush’s “messianic certainty.”
As usual, Goldberg has things exactly backward. As Goldberg himself recognizes, dogmatism can be very bad if dogma itself is bad. Which brings us to President Bush and the war in Iraq. In the face of overwhelming evidence that tells him otherwise, we have a president who is certain that waging war in Iraq was the right thing to do. And in total agreement with the president along every step of this catastrophe has been Goldberg himself.
So no, Jonah, it’s not that liberals are offended by convictions they don’t hold.
It’s that liberals, as well as other clear-thinking people, are offended by ironclad convictions that have no basis in reality–such as the conviction, held by the president, you and other Bush apologists, that the war in Iraq was a good idea.
