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I disagree.
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Whereas I don't agree with Sullivan on a number of things, I believe he is intelligent and was honestly trying to work out things in his head about the election. So were a lot of intelligent people. The difference is the process was on display in his case. I haven't seen any loss of eloquence there.

The reason he couldn't get around the political questions very well might be due to a gap in understanding of conservatism common to even intelligent liberals. He also, for obvious reasons, put a lot of weight on the gay issues, where Bush was not anywhere close to what he wanted in a president.

While supporting the war in Iraq on principle, he was very discouraged about the war. I think he was getting most of his news on Iraq from sources that want to see the war fail.

In a letter I wrote him, I compared him to Denethor, who got all his news on the War of the Ring through a Palantir seeing-stone. The catch was that although the stones could only reveal truth, this one had been poisoned by Sauron to reveal only the bad news.

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