Friday, April 09, 2004
Oh, Really?
I’ll say it if nobody else will: These asshats on the 9/11 commission who kept on asking, essentially, “why, oh why didn’t Bush preemptively strike against Afghanistan before the attacks on the World Trade Center? Did he not see it coming?” are disingenuous, deceitful and feckless.
These are the same kind of people who berate our President about our preemptive action in Iraq. Does anybody in their right mind really believe that these people would have supported a preemptive attack on Afghanistan absent 9/11?
I almost call them fools. But I, upon reflection, do not really believe that. I don’t believe they’re mistaken, misguided, merely wrong. No. They are not doing other than what they know they want to do. They are of the same mind as Senator Edward Kennedy.
I used to ask myself, “can they not see!?” “Do they not know what effect their words will have, both on our troops and the enemy they face?” “Are these Democrats so naïve that they think conferencing and group-hugs will dissuade these fanatics from trying to kill our soldiers and marines? Us?”
No. They know. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re taking a calculated risk. And they’re doing so for a very specific purpose: they’re risking the lives of American soldiers and citizens in a calculated attempt to regain that which they love above ALL else: power.
They know their words will hearten our enemies. A relative of that ludicrous sheik in Fallujah referenced the same concept that Pol Pot did: he mentioned that they knew they could not force the American military from Iraq, so their real goal was to force George W. Bush from the White House.
Same goal as the Democrats. Internationalism is one thing, but this confluence of motives and goals and actions has an ancient and spectacularly clear name: Treason.
For me the gloves are off. I’m no longer willing to credit these people with mere foolishness. They’re too consistent in their actions for that. Their actions are coordinated and purposeful. This is no mistaken, confused and foolish behavior. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they know that it will kill Americans. And they know that as more Americans die in Iraq their chances of winning the White House improve. This conscious and treacherous war plan of theirs is not a leap of logic for them: They’ve done this before. In fact, they’re so dismissive of the analytical abilities of the American populous that they even reference its first successful use: Vietnam.
Our enemy in Vietnam knew he could not best us in a toe-to-toe fight. So, wisely, he chose to siphon off the morale of the American public. And John Kerry, et al, did everything they could to assist our enemy with his primary goal: sap the American will to fight.
So, in a very real way, this is indeed Vietnam again. Not for our military. Not for our national leadership. Not, yet, for the American public. But definitely for the Democrats.
They’re not stupid, as they keep reminding us. I don’t know how I came to this idea that they are stupid. I’ve always seen them as foolish, but now I don’t think that’s the case. They are shrewdly re-using a strategy that was successful for them in the past: defeatism and moral corrosives splashed on the fortress walls of American resolve.
The problem is that I always thought that it was unimaginable that American political leaders would be so willingly disloyal, so sinister and brutal, that they would, as a Party, actively pursue the aims of our enemies to achieve their own goals.
I guess I’m the naive fool, after all.
I’ll say it if nobody else will: These asshats on the 9/11 commission who kept on asking, essentially, “why, oh why didn’t Bush preemptively strike against Afghanistan before the attacks on the World Trade Center? Did he not see it coming?” are disingenuous, deceitful and feckless.
These are the same kind of people who berate our President about our preemptive action in Iraq. Does anybody in their right mind really believe that these people would have supported a preemptive attack on Afghanistan absent 9/11?
I almost call them fools. But I, upon reflection, do not really believe that. I don’t believe they’re mistaken, misguided, merely wrong. No. They are not doing other than what they know they want to do. They are of the same mind as Senator Edward Kennedy.
I used to ask myself, “can they not see!?” “Do they not know what effect their words will have, both on our troops and the enemy they face?” “Are these Democrats so naïve that they think conferencing and group-hugs will dissuade these fanatics from trying to kill our soldiers and marines? Us?”
No. They know. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re taking a calculated risk. And they’re doing so for a very specific purpose: they’re risking the lives of American soldiers and citizens in a calculated attempt to regain that which they love above ALL else: power.
They know their words will hearten our enemies. A relative of that ludicrous sheik in Fallujah referenced the same concept that Pol Pot did: he mentioned that they knew they could not force the American military from Iraq, so their real goal was to force George W. Bush from the White House.
Same goal as the Democrats. Internationalism is one thing, but this confluence of motives and goals and actions has an ancient and spectacularly clear name: Treason.
For me the gloves are off. I’m no longer willing to credit these people with mere foolishness. They’re too consistent in their actions for that. Their actions are coordinated and purposeful. This is no mistaken, confused and foolish behavior. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they know that it will kill Americans. And they know that as more Americans die in Iraq their chances of winning the White House improve. This conscious and treacherous war plan of theirs is not a leap of logic for them: They’ve done this before. In fact, they’re so dismissive of the analytical abilities of the American populous that they even reference its first successful use: Vietnam.
Our enemy in Vietnam knew he could not best us in a toe-to-toe fight. So, wisely, he chose to siphon off the morale of the American public. And John Kerry, et al, did everything they could to assist our enemy with his primary goal: sap the American will to fight.
So, in a very real way, this is indeed Vietnam again. Not for our military. Not for our national leadership. Not, yet, for the American public. But definitely for the Democrats.
They’re not stupid, as they keep reminding us. I don’t know how I came to this idea that they are stupid. I’ve always seen them as foolish, but now I don’t think that’s the case. They are shrewdly re-using a strategy that was successful for them in the past: defeatism and moral corrosives splashed on the fortress walls of American resolve.
The problem is that I always thought that it was unimaginable that American political leaders would be so willingly disloyal, so sinister and brutal, that they would, as a Party, actively pursue the aims of our enemies to achieve their own goals.
I guess I’m the naive fool, after all.
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