By Neil the Ethical Werewolf
I recently cast my vote for "Best Conservative Blog" in the 2005 Weblog Awards. One of the things that inspired my vote was this series of posts by Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom.
No, I didn't vote for Jeff. (He's not even on the ballot.) One thing that fascinated me about his posts, which imagine fictional conversations between Iraqi militants, is that they demonstrate how focused many right-wing bloggers are on the lesser problem facing Iraq -- insurgents concerned with general anti-Western jihad -- and how totally unfocused they are on the greater problem -- the immense difficulty of constructing a stable government of any kind on top of the Bosnia-style ethnic strife that divides the country. Even more darkly fascinating is the way that right-wing bloggers escape to fiction when the actual facts about Iraq become too politically troubling for them to handle.
