Friedrich --

Andrew Sullivan takes on a Susan Sontag op-ed piece, and demonstrates what a ditzy sillikins she really is, here.

By the way... Sontag: absurd caricature of an intellectual? Or all too common an example of such?

Sample passage:

[The war against terror] is not and never has been a metaphor. Metaphors didn't crash into New York, Washington and Pennsylvania a year ago. Metaphors didn't liberate Afghanistan. Special Forces troops, even now defending Sontag's freedom to write her Op-Ed, are not metaphorically trying to hunt down al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. From our enemy's perspective, the war has been real for decades. The only people who didn't see it were those trying not to see it, or those who were distracted elsewhere.

Best,

Michael

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