Andrew Levine characterized Congressional Democrats thusly:
In Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift has his hero say of the inhabitants of Brobdingnag: “I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
Gulliver might have used those words, just as appropriately, to describe House and Senate Democrats as they mobilize to support Barack Obama’s looming Syrian War.
Yes, indeed!
I would put a photo of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) here but she is no more of a problem for anti-imperialists than the rest of her kind. She is a problem, of course. We should be clear on that point.
Filed under: Quote of the Day Tagged: Barack Obama, Crimes Against Humanity, Empire, Gulliver's Travels, Imperialism, Jonathan Swift, Nancy Pelosi, Party Duopoly, United States, War Crimes
