Great Leap Forward Isn't Working
It is pretty nice to see the Op-Ed writers beginning to sound like us rabid lambs of the internet. I find that every bit as impressive as the rapidly plummeting favorable ratings of the incompetents at the helm of the ship of state.
Although he's always opposed the war, Eugene Robinson at WaPo is writing that Since we would be providing 20,000 new targets for snipers and roadside bombs, how many do we calculate will die?
It is unconscionable to think about dispatching more young men and women to Iraq without the realistic expectation that their presence will make a difference in a war that is no longer in our control. [emphasis added]
The editorial writer is paying no token apologetic respect to 'mistakes', but calling w the unconscionable waster of lives and treasure that he has been in office. He further notes; I find it hard to believe that even this addle-brained administration is capable of breaking the Army.
It is time for this attitude of disrespect for reprehensible behavior, and criminal mistreatment of the public and public trust, to replace the wish to act as if we still have a rational, respectable administration with the good interests of the country at heart, imho.
From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Iraq Study Group is given very much the same total dismissal by Director Robert Satlof, who points out;
The wise men (and woman) don't know their history. In boldly suggesting that "all key issues in the Middle East are inextricably linked," the authors of the Iraq Study Group report seem stunningly indifferent to the past 25 years of Middle East politics.
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Not one Arab state threatened to fight alongside the Palestinians, and none even came to their aid militarily; indeed, only faraway Iran tried to send weapons. The Arab "street" did not rise in protest. Neither Jordan nor Egypt severed its peace treaty with Israel, and no Arab state faced significant protests. The conflict -- certainly a horrible experience for Israelis and Palestinians -- was contained.
The lesson of the past generation is that most states in the Arab Middle East have grown stronger, not weaker.
No dominoes? whatever will the self-appointed sages do? While I would prefer that the Cretin in Chief follow some of their suggestions, which are far more promising than his 'great leap forward', I do have to agree that a background in Middle Eastern civilization and present political make-up might have made some contributions to planning future behavior in that area.
I am very glad to see that the veneer of pretense has been scoured off more and more of the professional commenters that we hear from on the matters of government. And I join with them in saying, time to take the gloves off. It's the lie that has been the weapon keeping these cretins in high office. We need to do away with the lies they have used, and the polite lie of the commenters that they have some virtue in there deeply hidden away that we should respect. Wrapping themselves in the flag doesn't make them patriotic. It makes them vicious misappliers of the patriotism the public has shown toward their severely misused country
Although he's always opposed the war, Eugene Robinson at WaPo is writing that Since we would be providing 20,000 new targets for snipers and roadside bombs, how many do we calculate will die?
It is unconscionable to think about dispatching more young men and women to Iraq without the realistic expectation that their presence will make a difference in a war that is no longer in our control. [emphasis added]
The editorial writer is paying no token apologetic respect to 'mistakes', but calling w the unconscionable waster of lives and treasure that he has been in office. He further notes; I find it hard to believe that even this addle-brained administration is capable of breaking the Army.
It is time for this attitude of disrespect for reprehensible behavior, and criminal mistreatment of the public and public trust, to replace the wish to act as if we still have a rational, respectable administration with the good interests of the country at heart, imho.
From the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Iraq Study Group is given very much the same total dismissal by Director Robert Satlof, who points out;
The wise men (and woman) don't know their history. In boldly suggesting that "all key issues in the Middle East are inextricably linked," the authors of the Iraq Study Group report seem stunningly indifferent to the past 25 years of Middle East politics.
**********************************************
Not one Arab state threatened to fight alongside the Palestinians, and none even came to their aid militarily; indeed, only faraway Iran tried to send weapons. The Arab "street" did not rise in protest. Neither Jordan nor Egypt severed its peace treaty with Israel, and no Arab state faced significant protests. The conflict -- certainly a horrible experience for Israelis and Palestinians -- was contained.
The lesson of the past generation is that most states in the Arab Middle East have grown stronger, not weaker.
No dominoes? whatever will the self-appointed sages do? While I would prefer that the Cretin in Chief follow some of their suggestions, which are far more promising than his 'great leap forward', I do have to agree that a background in Middle Eastern civilization and present political make-up might have made some contributions to planning future behavior in that area.
I am very glad to see that the veneer of pretense has been scoured off more and more of the professional commenters that we hear from on the matters of government. And I join with them in saying, time to take the gloves off. It's the lie that has been the weapon keeping these cretins in high office. We need to do away with the lies they have used, and the polite lie of the commenters that they have some virtue in there deeply hidden away that we should respect. Wrapping themselves in the flag doesn't make them patriotic. It makes them vicious misappliers of the patriotism the public has shown toward their severely misused country
Labels: Dirty Tricks, Iraq Study Group, Iraq War
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