About the Dubai ports controversy... Nice to see that the left is now fully engaged in the War on Terror. Welcome aboard, comrades. Just to bring you up to date, before you got interested, the right liberated about 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq, has decimated the leadership of Al Qaeda, dismantled the nuclear network of A.Q. Khan, got Khaddafi to surrender his weapons of mass destruction, helped to throw the Syrians out of Lebanon, and, oh by the way, has kept the country safe from attack for almost five years. Little did we know that all we needed to bring you into the fold was the threat that the Teamsters might lose a few port jobs, but, hey, better late than never.
I listen to a lot of left-wing talk radio, or as they like to call it, "progressive". My general impression is that there seem to be just as many left-wing yahoos as right. The left in America may be a lot of things, but "progressive" does not seem to be one of them. They're against Social Security reform, against tax reform, against health care reform, and against a forward-looking sterategy for winning the GWOT, i.e., spreading freedom, and in general, against anything the Bush administration might propose.
If the administration really wanted a particular policy, right now the best thing they could propose would be the opposite. The left would immediately (and mindlessly) coalesce around opposing whatever the administration proposed, and they would get exactly what they wanted.
Which brings me back to the ports thing. Jimmy Carter supports it for God's sake! You know what it is? It's progressive! It's a policy of engaging with an entity in that God-forsaken part of the world that has actually been a friend to America. It seems to me that if a country is interested in investing billions of dollars in America, maybe they're not so eager to blow us up! I don't recall Bin Laden sinking tons of cash into New York real estate before blowing up the WTC.
So I wonder, my comrades of the left, have you really thought about where this is all leading? To me, your rhetoric sounds dangerously like "shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out". Which, actually, is probably music to the ears of the very most dangerous reactionaries of, you guessed it, the far-right wing.
Like I said, welcome aboard.
I listen to a lot of left-wing talk radio, or as they like to call it, "progressive". My general impression is that there seem to be just as many left-wing yahoos as right. The left in America may be a lot of things, but "progressive" does not seem to be one of them. They're against Social Security reform, against tax reform, against health care reform, and against a forward-looking sterategy for winning the GWOT, i.e., spreading freedom, and in general, against anything the Bush administration might propose.
If the administration really wanted a particular policy, right now the best thing they could propose would be the opposite. The left would immediately (and mindlessly) coalesce around opposing whatever the administration proposed, and they would get exactly what they wanted.
Which brings me back to the ports thing. Jimmy Carter supports it for God's sake! You know what it is? It's progressive! It's a policy of engaging with an entity in that God-forsaken part of the world that has actually been a friend to America. It seems to me that if a country is interested in investing billions of dollars in America, maybe they're not so eager to blow us up! I don't recall Bin Laden sinking tons of cash into New York real estate before blowing up the WTC.
So I wonder, my comrades of the left, have you really thought about where this is all leading? To me, your rhetoric sounds dangerously like "shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out". Which, actually, is probably music to the ears of the very most dangerous reactionaries of, you guessed it, the far-right wing.
Like I said, welcome aboard.
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