Posted on 11/08/2004 9:37:29 AM PST by tpaine
So you're cool with the Iranian- and Syrian-backed thugs taking over in Iraq? Get real.
How can they 'take over' if we are still there in our bases? Get rartional.
Oh this is rich, the New York Times loves the Buchanan Brigade all of a sudden.
I leave it that way to frustrate nit pickers.
The American Right does not consist of a handful of nervous Nelly halfvast pacifists. Neville Chamberlain was NOT one of us. This morning we have begun kicking Islamofascist patoot in Fallujah as we should have in March, 2004.
If we had lost this election it would have been over the loss of manufacturing jobs via "free trade" schemes and favoritism for executive suite obsessions with the old bottom line. That is why the Demonrats generally voted for the war and woe their tongues and keyboards out whining about money issues.
If we listen to the paleo-ostrich set, America is finished as a nation. Pacifism and national cowardice solve nothing for us and everything for our enemies.
It is the evil of the left that imagines man as merely an economic being. They have stolen friom the comfortable to provide bribes for all interest groups. The left expresses itself as flabbergasted when people in the heartland "vote against their interests." The left imagines that, unless you are a zillionaire Manhattanite and left social force you have no business worrying about anything but wages, welfare, health care, public schools, etc.
They are amazed that Jews of modest means care about Israel, that military veterans are proud of their service to civilization, that religious folk abhor baby slaughter and lavender "marriage," that most Americans find leftist forms of movies and popular entertainment vile. We are supposed to have economic tunnel vision so that we may be more efficiently bought by leftist political bribes.
Now, it is proposed that conservatives act as "economic man" and be saitisfied with smaller government and lower taxes. We are still religious folk. Many are veterans. Many are committed to israel as an American ally. We know that there is a right and there is a wrong. We also understand that "I am not my brother's keeper" is no more respectable or moral today than when uttered dishonestly by Cain.
If all that matters in politics is money, count me out.
The aging conservatives cited in the article are losing their nerve. Fortunately, many things are far more important than mere money.
No, the New York Times wants the Patsies to BE the GOP now; they're going to try to hang that "religious right" stuff around the GOP's neck for the next 4 years.
And, as we all know, the religious right will play right along.
I'm not a friend of Nordquist's faction.
Quick work in Iraq --
kill the bad guys, then get out --
sets a precedent
for Syria and
Iran -- get too thuggish and
they get "quick work," too!
The solution is a viable represntative democracy in Iraq. ANYTHING else is defeat.
Well, not anything. We could shoot their leaders, slaughter the Sunnis and the followers of Sadr, convert the survivors to Christianity and turn Iraq into our base to attack the terrorist supporting nations in the rest of the ME. To me this seems like the best long-term solution, but for some reason, only bloodthirsty ogres like me seem to like it.
(sigh)
You had to go and praise Grover Norquist.
I lost all respect for him (and anything else he has to say) on the day he wept aloud for open borders and amnesty for illegals, at CPAC.
Figures the NY TImes would like him...
Claiming that I'm a subversive troll makes you look like a fool.
I find it incredibly ironic and amusing that you used "rational" and "non-problem" (in describing Fallujah/Iraq) in the same sentence.
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...
I don't think the President needs these suggestions. He's not planning on maintaining the status quo anyway. My guess is that he'll set up permanent military installations along the Irani border, far from the Iraqi civilian population, and he'll let the Iraqis run their own country after the election in January.
It's interesting, though, that the NY Times concocts this imaginary scenario where conservatives are about to jump ship. I don't think it's going to happen.
Please pass along the details of this. If this statement is true, then this puts Grover Norquist in the same category as Richard Perle -- one of the architects of the Iraq war.
Afraid of competition?
Why don't you do us a favor and move to Canada with the anti-war (anti-American) left.
Your thoughts, like those expressed in this article, only embolden our enemies. Wheras, our Marines are fighting for Fallujah as we speak, and are killing many of the very terrorists who plot our destruction.
Your plan is pretty dopey, I gotta admit. And, I'm not being sarcastic.
It's their country, not ours.
Uh, no. The real intraparty war is coming with the demcorats, but the NY Times once agian lies and claims that everything is hunky dory for a party that just experienced a devastating loss.
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