Interesting discussion

Over at Michael Totten’s place – the New Republic’s Marty Peretz and the Atlantic’s Matt Yglesias have apparently been engaged in a lefty v. lefty running cat fight on the topic of exactly how much blame can be ladled atop the Bush administration for the fact that Palestinians in Gaza are running around killing each other. Peretz’s take? Not so much. Yglesias? Pretty much all of it.

Guest poster Noah Pollak has a point of view on the topic – Yglesias comes off worse for wear:

(L)ess than a year ago, Yglesias wrote the following: “I happen to think the White House made the right call on the question of Palestinian elections — even in retrospect, even knowing that Hamas won.” A couple of days ago, he called these administration officials “morons” for having supported the very same elections that he now condemns. I know it‚Äôs best to just hurry past the contradictions, especially when they involve the reshuffling of positions in order to condemn the Bush administration. But it is too enjoyable to avoid the conclusion that here, Yglesias is calling himself names.

D’oh. Stupid Internets.

Something there is about the Palestinian issue that brings out the trolls though, and Totten quickly finds it necessary to send one packing. The rest of the discussion is interesting, if only for the slow-motion trainwreck quality of it.

Summary: No. We can’t just all get along.