"indulging in ideology"

Canadian MP and former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff writes, in his mea culpa for supporting the Iraq War:

We might test judgment by asking, on the issue of Iraq, who best anticipated how events turned out. But many of those who correctly anticipated catastrophe did so not by exercising judgment but by indulging in ideology. They opposed the invasion because they believed the president was only after the oil or because they believed America is always and in every situation wrong.

What a very, very stupid thing to say, considering the Iraq war followed only a year after a war in Afghanistan supported by the vast majority of progressives. You might even say Ignatieff is indulging in ideology.

Silly stereotypes borne of right-wing propaganda die hard. Let this be a lesson to those Democratic legislators who still somehow believe that caving to the President on spying on Americans will somehow inoculate themselves against future political attacks on the issue.

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