Oedipus Rules: Boston Globe Writer Wants Defeat

James Carroll was a dominating figure in his life, and according to Carroll's autobiography, a great influence in his decision to become a priest. Carroll's father was a Colonel in the U.S. Army.

Now Carroll is a defrocked anti-clerical opponent of the Catholic Church, the U.S. Army, and the U.S.A., which he writes above should accept its "defeat" because of the hubris of its mistakes.

Carroll could be a poster-child of the self-referential narcissist liberal tendency to project one's personal failures onto a parent, a mentor, and one's country. Carroll should do some serious couch time with a therapist to analyze just how his life went terribly wrong and how he refused to be accountable.

Overthrowing a terrible dictator we believed on the brink of manufacturing nuclear weapons was not a terrible loss of honor, as Carroll contends. It may have been a terrible mistake, but Saddam Hussein vies with Kim Jung-Il and Fidel Castro as being one of the worst people in the world.

This is never mentioned by the so-called "moral" author of the piece linked above, because it would put context and reality into the discussion, and that is where "moralists" like Carroll fall on their faces.

In truth, Daddy Dearest is the reason Carroll hates his family, church, and country.