It was a pleasure to hear some sharp truth-telling on Chris Matthews’ Hardball tonight.

Call a spade a spade, said Eli Parisier and Markos Moulitsas defending their controversial ad calling General Petraeus General Betray Us.

Frankly, I would have have phrased that differently — no need to impugn anyone’s patriotism. That didn’t help.
Nonetheless, their point was a good one:

Why get so worked up about an admittedly harsh ad — when tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars are being wasted in a blood bath half way across the globe that serves no use except to fuel more terrorism?

War is the central issue for libertarians, right or left. We can fight about Cesar Chavez or Hugo Chavez afterwards……

Second thoughts:

On the other hand, calling Petraeus a traitor only makes it more difficult for Republicans to oppose the general….and now I hear Dennis Kucinich is in Syria talking about the illegality of the US occupation.

Sometimes I wonder if people are actually interested in changing things or getting their message across in an effective way at all…