Posted on 04/10/2006 3:39:35 PM PDT by duckln
Kerry, the anti-war candidate?
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But meddling in the internal affairs of ex-Soviet republics has enraged Moscow, pushed Russia closer to China and converted Vladimir Putin from a friend of the United States into a bitter adversary.
As Andrew Bacevich writes in The American Conservative, the just-released Bush National Security Strategy "comes chockfull of declarations, exhortations and gaseous generalities ... [but] never bothers to consider how we got into our current mess ... or how we're going to pay for the 'Long War' that the president has contrived as the best way to get us out."
As for our goal of "ending tyranny on the face of the earth," Bacevich writes, we had best address the matter of ends and means:
"In 2005, the U.S. Army experienced its worst recruiting year in a quarter-century. Out of a population of some 290 million, the Army had a goal of persuading 80,000 to serve. Despite plenty of bucks for advertising, the offer of generous bonuses and the lessening of enlistment standards, recruiters still came up nearly 7,000 volunteers short."
You can't run an empire without soldiers. Bacevich quotes Lord Rutherford in the 1930s, "We're out of money; it's time to think."
Have Republicans any thoughts – other than embracing Bush and, of course, warning us always to beware the big, bad wolf of "isolationism"?
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This is a mouthfull from Pat.
Have Republicans any thoughts – other than embracing Bush and, of course, warning us always to beware the big, bad wolf of "isolationism"?
Sour grapes by Pat, but he's absolutely right.
Speaking of *gaseous*, I note that Pat Buchanan wrote this article.
I just love the fact that this turkey (and his scary wife) will be dumping a lot of liberal elite money down the drain in his hopeless pursuit of power and fame.
'You can't run an empire without soldiers. Bacevich quotes Lord Rutherford in the 1930s, "We're out of money; it's time to think." '
I bet that Rutherford did a lot of thinking while the Nazis and Japs bombed the crap out of his Brits and their allies.
I thought Kerry was the war hero who was going to lead us in the fight against terrorism? What was that about flip-flops?
Pat, true to form, mentions a Jew in one of his articles.
Well done Pat, well done.
Which reminds me...
One of Pat's Uncles died in a Nazi Concentration camp.
He fell out of the guard tower.
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