Posted on 02/20/2006 11:58:39 AM PST by Jack Bull
Within the boundaries of our country, the "loyal opposition" is expected to make their case to the American voters. The "loyal opposition" is not expected to abdicate its attempts to persuade Americans that there may be a better way.
However, past the water's edge, there is no loyal opposition. There is only disloyal opposition. Because past the water's edge, there's no politics, only policy.
The world is filled with unstable and dangerous regimes. Tyrants and dictators are virtually impossible to deal with using one voice, one policy. These regimes-- take Syria and Iran, for example-- have filled their oppressed subjects with explosive propaganda about the motives and intentions of the most powerful country on Earth--- America. Millions of people have been lied to about who we are and what we stand for. And the lies have been packed into the heads of ignorant, angry and religiously confused people ready to be set off like a dropped barrel of nitroglycerin. For the purpose of being set off. The bomb was built to explode.
It is patently irresponsible for the minority party in the United States to take their opposition message out beyond our shores. There are no voters there. There are only non-Americans who must be given every opportunity to hear, in the clearest terms possible, what are the policies of the United States.
Our policies, not our politics. Our politics are not their business. It is wrong to communicate our political differences. The world is a highly dangerous place when there is no confusion as to our policies.
Why would a minority party, led by the former Clinton administration, take their political differences to volatile and hostile regions of the world? The only thing I can figure out is there is a calculated, premeditated, effort to influence world opinion against the stated policy of our country as articulated by our President and our Secretary of State. This effort is meant to cause confusion, anxiety and alarm about our President and his administration. The effort is to have foreign leaders and their citizens hate President Bush as much as the Kook-fringe leaders of the Democrat Party.
Democrats are infamous for their twisted reliance on polls. Especially after negative campaigning. And they love "push polls." Perhaps there is a perverted calculation that the American people will look to turmoil on the international scene as proof of the failures of the Republicans in Congress and The White House. And if international polls support that idea, perfect. There's proof that America is out of the international mainstream. It fits their style. It fits the template.
Right now, if the facts stood on their own, without the media's bitterly partisan and inaccurate reporting on the war in Iraq, the American people would see what the people in Iraq see--- unparalleled and unbelievable progress in a country that was run by one of the most brutal Stalinist-inspired dictators in world history only a few short years ago. They would see Iran being cordoned off from the sane world. They would see our presence in the Middle East as what it is: A force for freedom. And if that view was presented with one voice to the rest of the world, perhaps there wouldn't be as much unrest.
But when coupled with a magnificent economy and a series of lost elections, the loyal opposition at home may be getting desperate to reach for means to negatively influence world opinion about our policies, and then American opinion about our politics.
What other reason would former President Clinton and Vice-President Algore go out in the same week and sell out our country and our values while standing on the soil of countries where the monsters that attacked our country on 9/11 were born, raised, educated, inspired, and funded? And why during a time when Islamofascists are rioting around the world?
There has been a deliberate attempt to mislead the world, Muslims, and, especially, Islamofascists. The world has been set ablaze by the very thugs the former Clinton administration has declared to be victims. Terribly wronged victims. Victims that should sue to get their rights restored. Victims that should sue for justice.
This is not just disgraceful, it is misguided. The United States, like every other country in the world, must speak with one voice. It is dangerous to do otherwise. It is disloyal.
The rules change past the water's edge. That's not a law, that's common sense. That's reality. That cannot be changed-- even if a minority party in our country is desperate to regain power. Their domestic political shortcomings are not reason to subvert America's foreign policy. John Kerry flirted with this trick with his suggestion that George Bush's foreign policies did not pass the "global test." This was stated during a presidential political debate. A "global test" would show President Bush to be a failure when it came to the decision to go to war in Iraq.
I think Democrats are deliberately playing a dangerous game of attempting to negatively influence world opinion about the policies of the United States. They must be called out on this. Democrats are hurting our national security EVEN WHEN THEY ARE NOT IN OFFICE. They have taken the occasion of their failed efforts to win elections in this country to undermine our country's foreign policy-- at a time of war and during a time of world crisis due to the riots caused by the very Islamofascists Clinton and Gore have reached out to.
Unacceptable.
Liberals don't see themselves as Americans....more like citizens of the world, because they think that's ever so much more sophisticated, enlightened, progressive and....nuanced, than just being an American.
They've been subverting American foreign policy for some time now. Since the 80's!
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There's a simple term for what they're doing, Jack. Treason.
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I'd like to hear more discussion on this. It is out of control.
Unfortunately, I don't think there will ever be another prosecution for treason in this country. The whole "how DARE you judge me!" attitude seems to have taken hold. Well, I dare judge them just fine. They're traitors, enemies of our society, and should be tried, convicted, stripped of their citizenship, and expelled.
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