The Rant Continues...
Enjoy this moment, Dems. It's a free-fire zone on George W. Bush, a magical time when all the world's ills can be blamed on a lame duck President of the other party, even as your own party controls an even less popular Congress. Question: How much is oil up since the Dems took Congress? Answer: About 90%. No matter, you can blame it on Bush.
But the sweetest rage must be saved for recriminations about Iraq. It's an occasion for fine, Olbermanesque speechifyin' all brimming with righteous indignation. With the benefit of hindsight, everyone knows now that they would have been able to calibrate exactly how much force would be required to secure the country. In case you hadn't noticed, the country has been secured. We're not getting hit by terrorists anymore. What's the complaint, exactly? That maybe the country could have been secured by doing less? The President should have gambled that Saddam would have stayed out of it, that he'd gotten rid of every last WMD, that he'd sworn off his support for terrorists, that he wouldn't have dropped a couple of his oil-for-food billions to take a shot at us? Well, when Obama gets elected, we'll see how well that kind of thinking keeps us safe.
Actually, if you knuckleheads had half a brain you'd be rooting your asses off for W to take care of Ahmadinejad before your boy gets in there. Dinner-jacket will take Obama's lunch money and then kick his ass. Then he'll lob a nuke into Israel and dare Barry to do something about it. How you like me now, Obama? You want to talk?
History may well judge George Bush harshly, but if it does, it won't be because he did too much. It'll be because he didn't do enough. At a time when the West held a decisive edge in military power, bin Laden offered us the pretext to take decisive action against all our enemies--Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Saddam, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Bush made a start at it, but the job is not done, despite the great victories in Afghanistan and Iraq. And yes, they're victories, but partial victories don't count. History is replete with examples of great powers who underestimated the resolve of their enemies.
If Obama gets in, there is simply no way he'll have the resolve, or the political capital, to hold the line against Iranian nukes--and just like that the West's strategic advantage will be gone. From that point onward, our choice will be gradual capitulation or the most horrible war imaginable.
Americans alive today for the most part have only known peace and great prosperity. The world can change very suddenly.
In a a way, Bush is a victim of his own success. He succeeded so completely at shutting down terror, he opened the door to criticism that he'd done too much.
Better than not enough.
Enjoy this moment, Dems. It's a free-fire zone on George W. Bush, a magical time when all the world's ills can be blamed on a lame duck President of the other party, even as your own party controls an even less popular Congress. Question: How much is oil up since the Dems took Congress? Answer: About 90%. No matter, you can blame it on Bush.
But the sweetest rage must be saved for recriminations about Iraq. It's an occasion for fine, Olbermanesque speechifyin' all brimming with righteous indignation. With the benefit of hindsight, everyone knows now that they would have been able to calibrate exactly how much force would be required to secure the country. In case you hadn't noticed, the country has been secured. We're not getting hit by terrorists anymore. What's the complaint, exactly? That maybe the country could have been secured by doing less? The President should have gambled that Saddam would have stayed out of it, that he'd gotten rid of every last WMD, that he'd sworn off his support for terrorists, that he wouldn't have dropped a couple of his oil-for-food billions to take a shot at us? Well, when Obama gets elected, we'll see how well that kind of thinking keeps us safe.
Actually, if you knuckleheads had half a brain you'd be rooting your asses off for W to take care of Ahmadinejad before your boy gets in there. Dinner-jacket will take Obama's lunch money and then kick his ass. Then he'll lob a nuke into Israel and dare Barry to do something about it. How you like me now, Obama? You want to talk?
History may well judge George Bush harshly, but if it does, it won't be because he did too much. It'll be because he didn't do enough. At a time when the West held a decisive edge in military power, bin Laden offered us the pretext to take decisive action against all our enemies--Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Saddam, Syria, Iran and North Korea. Bush made a start at it, but the job is not done, despite the great victories in Afghanistan and Iraq. And yes, they're victories, but partial victories don't count. History is replete with examples of great powers who underestimated the resolve of their enemies.
If Obama gets in, there is simply no way he'll have the resolve, or the political capital, to hold the line against Iranian nukes--and just like that the West's strategic advantage will be gone. From that point onward, our choice will be gradual capitulation or the most horrible war imaginable.
Americans alive today for the most part have only known peace and great prosperity. The world can change very suddenly.
In a a way, Bush is a victim of his own success. He succeeded so completely at shutting down terror, he opened the door to criticism that he'd done too much.
Better than not enough.
posted by alwaysright at
4:48 PM
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