http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Here is David Brooks exercising his disgust, his contempt for what might be characterized and practiced as necessary political hypocrisy, framed in the bankrupt pieties of the American Political Theology. Here, also, the backhanded apologetics for Israeli intransigence in the ‘Peace Process’, framed in the tired moralizing that dominates the American political discourse, in its American Likudnik iteration. One should not attempt to criticize monstrous political murders and torture, if one is guilty of such heinous crimes against persons and the law, while masquerading as a moral/political exemplar. But most assuredly that is the theory and practice of American Exceptionalism; Mr. Brooks being one of the foremost advocates and opinionators in service to that intransigent, even subversive, instance of simple political opportunism, freighted with self-aggrandizing notions of world leadership. One should not point the bloody finger of accusation at a criminal, if one does not expect the practice of a critical symmetry within a network of honest inquirers.

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