I heard this quotation on the radio(Fresh Air was interviewing the author of “State of War”):

“The fact that we’re discussing this program is helping the enemy.”

Bush of course, back in Decemeber.

It made me think of two things:
1) Bush believes that war is a zero-sum game.

I believe that the Geneva Convention proves that war is not a zero sum game. Moreover, by passing laws which require everyone to act honorably, we provide more for ourselves than our enemies. We would have acted honorably anyway, so it costs us nothing, and affirms our honor. But those who act with dishonor are doubly damned, by natural law, and man’s law. I recall a book I read recently where a character observed that societies ban what they most want to do so perhaps I am wrong about what McCain and Bush each desire.

2) I see a parallel between my complaints about Bush and Antony’s funeral oration.

No, I don’t think that Bush is Caesar. The American Caesar is the Constitution. It grants to us in its will its freedoms. But the The Bill of Rights was overly ambitious, grievously so, and for this fault Bush, who loves the Constitution slayed it, and Bush is an honorable man.

Antony’s conclusion also holds. Lest the crowd be incited to violence, wronging these honorable men, I should sooner wrong myself, wrong our dead liberties, and wrong you.