Is Saddam About To Raise The South Again?

Dang! Thought I was going to get to bed, but I got sidetracked by Glenn Reynolds. He had a link to a very interesting essay by Donald Sensing about America’s two different approaches to war Wilsonianism and Jacksonianism.

I guess I had never realized just how deep the Southern approach to life runs through me. Both of my parents are from up north and you would think that their influence would have tempered any of the Southern traits that I might have picked up, but no. That whole pride and honor and respect stuff still gets in the way of decision making.

I really didn’t care too terribly much about this mess with Iraq, until they released that 12,000 page garbage “report”. Sure, before that I was concerned about Iraq, but it was certainly not in the forefront of my mind. But that report……it just struck me as very disrespectful for the Iraqi government to waste 12,000 pages lying to us. They must have taken us for fools to send us that much BS. Logically, I knew that the report was going to be full of lies long before it was ever sent. But the gut reaction to them actually sending that trash………It was so Southern; so Jacksonian. All of the sudden, I went from not really paying too much attention to the Iraq situation to it being something that I try to follow very closely. And once I was satisfied that we had proven our case, I have been on board 100% ever since.

Mr. Sensing believes that the war in Iraq will be a “Northern” war. He’s probably right. I think that we will probably approach it from with a rational and restrained plan. I just think that have got to be many more people like me who are just flat out pissed about being disrespected. I’m guessing that one little boo-boo by Saddam and he’s going to be dealing with the righteous might and fury of the Jacksonian US military. If so, God (or Allah) help him, ’cause nothing on this Earth can.