{"id":7910,"date":"2014-06-10T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/10\/the-left-and-some-of-its-narratives\/"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T11:30:26","slug":"the-left-and-some-of-its-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/06\/10\/the-left-and-some-of-its-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left and Some of its ‘Narratives’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leftists are not concerned with the truth, but with the 'narrative.'  The latter concern is animated by the will to power, not the will to truth, a fact that explains what otherwise would be hard to explain, namely, why certain leftists are enamoured of Nietzsche.  Here<\/a> are the liberal narratives with respect to Bergdahl, Benghazi, IRS, Obamacare, VA, and illegal immigration.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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For the Obama administration narrative to be accurate about the swap of five Taliban\/al-Qaeda-related kingpins for Sgt. Bergdahl, we are asked to believe the following:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Sgt. Bergdahl was in ill health; thus the need for alacrity. Surely we will expect to see him in an enfeebled state on his return to the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Sgt. Bergdahl was in grave and sudden danger from his captors; thus the need for alacrity. We expect to see proof of that on his return to the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. The five Taliban detainees will be under guard in Qatar for a year. We expect in June 2015 to know that they are still there in Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. The five Taliban detainees don\u2019t really pose a grave threat<\/a> [2]<\/sup> to U.S. troops, given that we will be gone from Afghanistan in 2016. We expect not to hear that any of the five are reengaged in the war effort<\/a> [3]<\/sup> to kill Americans between 2015-16.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Sgt. Bergdahl served with \u201chonor and distinction.\u201d We expect to have confirmation of that fact<\/a> [4]<\/sup> once his intelligence file is released and more evidence is adduced that all of his platoon-mates were wrong (or perhaps vindictive and partisan<\/a> [5]<\/sup>) in stating that he voluntarily left their unit \u2014 deserted \u2014 to meet up with the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Sgt. Bergdahl was captured on the \u201cfield of battle\u201d; we expect to have confirmation that he was taken unwillingly by the enemy amid a clash of arms.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Sgt. Bergdahl was not a collaborator. We expect to learn confirmation of the fact that he did not disclose information to his captors.<\/span><\/p>\n

8. Bergdahl\u2019s fellow soldiers in his platoon are either partisan operatives or sorely misinformed, and we will shortly learn that their accounts of Bergdahl\u2019s disappearance were erroneous.<\/span><\/p>\n

9. The U.S. has traditionally negotiated to bring home even deserters, and did so frequently, for example, both during and after the Korean War when GIs crossed into North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

10. The timing of the swap amid the VA scandal and the press conference with the Bergdahl family were not predicated on political considerations<\/a> [6]<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

11. There is no law stopping the president from releasing terrorists from Guantanamo, only legal fictions<\/a> [7]<\/sup> promulgated by right-wing critics of the president.<\/span><\/p>\n

12. The five Taliban terrorists are now old outliers<\/a> [8]<\/sup>, rusty, and mostly irrelevant to the war in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Leftists are not concerned with the truth, but with the 'narrative.'  The latter concern is animated by the will to power, not the will to truth, a fact that explains what otherwise would be hard to explain, namely, why certain leftists are enamoured of Nietzsche.  Here are the liberal narratives with respect to Bergdahl, Benghazi, … Continue reading “The Left and Some of its ‘Narratives’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}