But Moore has a right to his opinion; the style and tone however contribute to a polarization that is scary. It’s a sad week for a democratic open debate where a former Vice President sees it fit to call bloggers “digital brownshirts” and the current VP, not someone beyond controversy either, uses the f-word against a senator. It’s only June so imagine where the vocabulary will be in November. Iraq is no Vietnam, but the debate over the war on terror at large is becoming poisoned and since the threat of terror is of a far greater magnitude than anything, as we know now, that endangered us in the Cold War era we can only hope it will not lead to a fatal divide.

By the way, I do not think that Al Gore lost his mind, he’s always been like this although now all the constraints of protocol have fallen away: Gore unleashed. Even as VP he was known for using extreme oratory to make a point. And sometimes he had a point, anyone remember this?