Count Me In On Beck's Team

In the latest Great Debate on the Right — the “caliphate” Beck-oning in Egypt vs. Egypt Kristol-izing in the spirit of “1776” — I’ll take a front seat on Beck’s side of the divide.

More to come because this subject is more meaty than my flip intro suggests. In fact, watching the fragmentation between the “respectable” Right, as Robert Stacy McCain sarcastically styles it, and those the “respectable” Right and Left are glibly co-tarring as a lunatic fringe spearheaded by the popular and unbowed Beck, I see possible signs of a nascent conservative reckoning on the disastrous Bush drive to democractize the Islamic world as a response to jihad, or what Bushites regard as generic “terrorism” — terrorism devoid of ideologicla and strategic roots in Islam. If this reckoning comes to pass, the movement will be a lot smarter and more prepared to fend off further Islamization.

I hope.