Why Can't Tom Ricks Say What He Thinks?

OK, so here I am, minding my own business, trying to do a little reading and get my mind off current events for awhile.  I'm not speaking of just the recent events in my own family, but of the national tragedy this past weekend in Tucson, Arizona.  One of the sources I follow via my Google Reader is Tom Rick's blog, The Best Defense, published in Foreign Policy magazine.  It caught my eye today that Ricks had posted a short blog yesterday on the Tuscon shooting and opined therein about the possibility of revisions to our Second Amendment.


Stuff like that from Tom Ricks is par for the course.  He is a reasonably dependable and accurate military historian, but he is a wacko lib in his political views, which he goes to no great length to hide whenever the urge to pontificate strikes him.  He is always pretty bold to state his case.  You should read some of his castigations of the military brass and of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in his books, Fiasco and The Gamble.

In Ricks' post yesterday, entitled "The Attack on our System in Arizona,"  he did a very un-Ricks thing, cowardly if you think about it.  He inserted this picture ...

... and, by doing so, placed himself on the side of the Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnnik, Jane Fonda, South Carolina democrat, James Clyburn, and a host of assorted idiots, in blaming the political right (read:  Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, talk radio, etc.) for what that jerk in Tucson did.  The picture is from an old campaign ad of Sarah Palin's.  Note the cross-hairs.  The cross-hairs, and the fact that Mrs. Palin is a conservative, means to people like Ricks, Ms. Fonda, Mr. Clyburn, Paul Krugman of the New York Times, etc., that Sarah Palin bears responsibility for the deaths and injuries in the weekend's horrific events.








But, observe ...
This little diagram was published by Democrats in 2004.  Note the targets.  Same kind of "attack ad" that Republican Sarah Palin used in 2010.  Ergo, Democrats, by Tom Rick's own twisted logic (that he's too chicken to come right out and say), must bear equal responsibility in what happened in Arizona this past weekend as does Sarah Palin, et al.  I know this is nonsense, but we're talking about the left here and the left's concept of reality is nonsense.

Stick to military history, Mr. Ricks.  I think that's a subject you know something about.