The forrest, the trees, and Rove

People are buzzing over Karl Rove's recent attack on Liberals. Kinda old news. In case you missed it, Rove says:

"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers ... Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

Of course Democrats are up in arms and demanding an apology...and of course the Republicans are not giving one. Why not? Because they didn't make a mistake. The purpose of the comment was to raise the image of conservatives being righteously agressive and liberals being terrorist sympathizers. People, use your brains. Rove does not make mistakes of this magnitude. And he is not starting up a political royal rumble just because the President's approval rating is low. Every one of those words was scripted for a purpose. If you're an angry liberal and want to fight back, you should start by ascertaing the purpose of this fight.

Here's what I see: very soon the Pentagon will be forced to release the remaining Abu Ghraib photos. When that happens there will be an uproar. Islamists will embrace to terrorism and people will die. Americans will want someone to blame. Logically one would blame the people responsible, and the the people responsible for them, but the Administration will try to shuffle the blame off onto the people who declassified the information: the ACLU. The liberals. The liberals who are terrorist sympathizers. The ones who are betraying the good government who (if a cover-up emerges from the photos) was just trying to protect our troops in a time of war.