Glenn Greenwald on David Brooks “self-loving tribalistic blindness laced with a pathological refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions”

“if you constantly cheer on one war after the next that results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and the extreme suffering of millions more (as Brooks has done — beyond Iraq and Afghanistan — and continues to do), then you can’t coherently claim that the targets of your wars have a unique disregard for human life; that they — but not you — “don’t see others as fully human”; that they — but not you — “cause incredible amounts of suffering”; and that they — but not you — “come to believe others can be blamelessly murdered and that, in fact, it is admirable to do so.”

Brooks advocates exactly that which he condemns — and he does so over and over again. That doesn’t mean his condemnations are wrong (criminals can coherently condemn other crimes). But it does mean that his claim that such sentiments are unique to Muslim radicals is plainly false.

If Mr. Greenwald does not win the Brass Crescent for Best non-Muslim blog then there is no justice in this world.