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Posted on 03/03/2006 5:48:30 AM PST by texianyankee
Well, it has finally happened. Americans are regaining their senses, and the cycle of ignorance that has gripped this nation for the past five years is relinquishing its hold.
Seeing the end in sight, the rats have begun to jump ship and retreat into their holes, along with their media pundits, Barbie dolls and think-tank experts. It seems Americans have had enough of the "fair and balanced" news and the policies that caused their mental constipation.
In record time, the United States has been transformed from a free and secure nation, loved and respected by much of the world, to one that is less secure and less free. And while radical and fringe terrorist groups in 2001 might have had an ax to grind with the United Sates, today many more such groups have been spawned and target American life and property.
Most important, "the war on terror," the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, is providing support for dictators to decimate all legitimate opposition within their societies, further increasing radicalism and anti-Americanism.
As evidenced by the White House, Congress and the new Supreme Court, the radical right has subjugated America's domestic and foreign policy to its will. This faction is attempting to turn back time by eliminating the political and social gains Americans fought so hard to win. New economic policies are targeting the legacies of the New Deal and the Great Society and unleashing huge corporations to act with impunity.
More serious are the attacks on personal freedoms hard-won by the civil rights movement and the counterculture revolution of the '50s, '60s and '70s.
Internationally, they have fashioned a new enemy for the United States, namely Islam and Muslims. I have rarely seen so much hate, misinformation and ignorance displayed so prominently in every facet of American society. Institutions of higher learning are under attack. College Republicans go out of their way in the name of free speech to insult and denigrate those who are different from them. Many speakers and advocates of these groups are paid for by national organizations.
So what are the indicators that America's stupor is coming to an end?
First, polls indicate that most Republican candidates for Congress are facing extreme difficulties holding on to public support.
Second, 56 percent of Americans no longer believe "the war against terror" argument used by the administration to pass unpopular policies.
Third, the war in Iraq is wrong, unnecessary and senseless. According to recent polls, only 34 percent support President Bush in his efforts to maintain it.
Fourth, according to a poll conducted by Zogby International and reported in the Washington Post, 75 percent of U.S. troops in Iraq disagree with the Bush administration and favor evacuating Iraq within a year. Indeed, 29 percent advocate immediate withdrawal. More important, 82 percent didn't buy the administration's weapons-of-mass-destruction argument.
Fifth, the cost of the war has been horrific to the Iraqis and has destabilized their country and turned it into a breeding ground for extremists. Al-Qaida might be paralyzed or even dead, but thanks to this administration, its children are alive and well. And they have no qualms about murdering anyone who gets in their way.
It hasn't been without a cost for America, either. According to the Washington Post, one in three service members in Iraq returns with debilitating psychological disorders.
Sixth, for the first time Americans are discovering how much of their country's economic activity is controlled by foreign business interests. Few can argue against the management of five ports by Dubai World Ports when so many U.S. ports are run by Chinese, Singaporean and British companies.
Finally, the more Americans learn, the more anxious they will be to sweep this administration and its supporters into the dustbin of history and open the windows to let knowledge and hope back in.
His "fair and balanced" comment in quotes implies that people are turning away from Fox News Channel. I don't think there's any evidence of that. He just had to get a dirty little dig in. What a small-minded man!
There are plenty of "conservatives" helping that process pick up speed, even right here on this site.
END THE OCCUPATION!....of Austin, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Madison, Cambridge....
I like what Ann Coulter had to say about the senior senator from the People's Republic of Taxachusetts--she doesn't know why the Dims look to Ted Kennedy for leadership: "If the Democrats want to cling to the middle of the road, why are they backing Ted Kennedy? Didn't he have trouble clinging to the middle of the road?"
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I'm telling you they really really believe if they keep telling us often enough and long enough that we will begin to believe that we hate Republicans and want to be Democrats. It's pitiful, but it's the only strategy they have left.
You insulted all cockroches, terribly....
Yeah, well, deal with it baby. GW IS GOING TO BE AROUND for one and one-half months shy of THREE MORE YEARS!!!!
I hope The Prez causes the libs all the headaches and hell he can for the next three years.
Jus' wait for the next elections!
Sound of toilet full of rats ffffflush!
Vote the bastRATs out into oblivion!
Guess you better put this one on suicide watch when they discover GW Bush is President until Jan 2009. Just under 3 more years. Read it and weep Leftist Losers.
Could spend a lot of time on this whole diatribe, but the paragraph above is especially instructive.
Where has this guy been the last 30 years? Islam a NEW enemy? What about 1979 in Tehran? What about the Achille Lauro? What about 1983 in Beirut? I could go on and on. If this guy honestly thinks that the actions of the GWB administration has created Islam as a new enemy out of whole cloth, he must have been on one continuous trip since the 70s.
Funny, I haven't observed "College Republicans" shouting down or pitching pies at anyone, or trying to restrict people to "free speech zones", or stealing and destroying newspapers that present an opposing view, or spouting their views to classrooms full of impressionable students who have no choice but to sit through it. But I've noted that the left-wingers on campus regularly do all the above, and more.
And as for Republican speakers being paid for by "national organizations", I'd much rather that than have a succession of lefty speakers paid for by taxpayers or alumni who don't agree with their views, which is typically what happens.
Bottom line: this guy is engaging in the old Democrat tactic of "projection", defined as accusing others of doing all the reprehensible things that your group actually does, and hope the reader can't tell your propaganda from the truth. That tactic might work with sheeple, but not anyone with a brain cell left that hasn't been barbecued by the MSM and the flickering blue parent.
I think this was probably a typo. He meant to say 'open the windows to let naivety and wishful thinking back in.'
The Dems are fooling themselves if they think America wants them. Maybe the American people are tired of Bush. Maybe they want a new direction. But they want to turn right, not left.
That is it exactly and the Dems will never "get it". Conservatives are mad at Bush for not being conservative enough. Those people are saying "a pox on both their houses", not moving left.
This the day after the Senate passed 89 - 10 extending the Patriot Act
The author... is that a pseudo name for Howard Dean ?
The San Antonio paper pays someone to write this crap? Has the publisher lost what passes for his mind?
Yes to both of your questions......
Hey Mansour! Go back to Islamoland and bury your RAT head. Such a stupid article!
A bit more on El Weasealo:
Moral Equivalence Between the Terrorist and His Target
Mansour El-Kikhia is a regular columnist for the San Antonio Express News. He has long been an apologist for Arab terror in general and Palestinian terror in particular. Although he doesn't expressly say it, his tone indicates he too would like to see Israel eliminated. And his most recent column is an excellent example in that he expressly equates those struggling against terrorists with the terrorists themselves. He works up to it gradually:
As a result of Israeli pressures, the Bush administration has placed Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations. It arrested its supporters, froze its assets and the assets of any charity in America thought to be supporting it.
There go those evil Zionists again. In other contexts, El-Kikhia is happy to decry what he regards as pernicious American policy, but here he ascribes what he doesn't like to "Israeli pressure." Israeli probably did make known its desires that Hamas be treated as a terrorist organization, but my working assumption is that how we treat Hamas has more to do with the truth about Hamas than it does with what Israel wanted. El-Kikhia himself doesn't deny that Hamas sponsors terrorism. Given that, where does he get off blaming the Israelis for Hamas being so listed?
El-Kikhia goes on to lay the next brick:
Many in the Arab world do not condone some of its tactics, but they do see the organization as a legitimate response to Israel's relentless colonization.
Now El-Kikhia is dancing with moral equivalence. He hasn't yet personally embraced it; he just attributes the equivalence to "many in the Arab world." Pardon me if the opinions of "many in the Arab world" leave me unpersuaded. "Many in the Arab world" would like to see a world-wide caliphate and would like to see such as me slaughtered for an infidel or, at best, subjected to dhimmitude. I would be interested to hear where El-Kikhia stands on that issue.
Not wanting to leave us hanging, El-Kikhia finally personally embraces moral equivalence:
Hamas' tactics might need to be condemned, but Israel is no less worthy of American condemnation.
Full blown moral equivalence. Those who must deal with the day-to-day reality of suicide bombers and other barbarity are equated with those who would destroy them. What more do you need to hear to know that El-Kikhia's opinions are an affront to the wood pulp on which they are printed?
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