Dan Crenshaw Is No Statesman

n Crenshaw is sad. Americans have quit playing the Texas congressman’s game. The war he has built his identity around has ended. Well, not really ended, he says. Speaking for veterans, he declares that we know we are always at war and always will be. We’ve just decided now to pretend we are not at war. 

One wonders how a person who lives in this eternal state of war can sleep at night, let alone be a great leader in politics helping to build and preserve civilization. I don’t know how Crenshaw sleeps at night, but it’s pretty clear he is no statesman.

For one, Crenshaw is a pure sophist. In a recent gathering he lamented that we have stopped protecting America, and what we got for 20 years of war was “no more 9/11s.” His case for eternal war seems heartfelt and well-informed—after all, he’s a warrior and stuff. But I couldn’t help but think of an old clip from “The Simpsons” about specious reasoning in which Lisa sells Homer a rock that keeps tigers away. Dan Crenshaw, it seems, is a sort of Homer Simpson.

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