I’m afraid you are right. The media will spin terror attacks in the US as “blowback” from “Bush’s illegal war” that never would be happening if we’d just left Saddam in place.
I give the media alot of credit for being able to sway public opinion but the gallop poll today showing that 70 plus percent want stability in iraq before withdrawal gives me hope that they see beyond the BS.
They're going to have a hard time spinning, after the cores of several major cities are destroyed by nuclear bombs. At that point there will be nothing left to spin. The "truth" about the enemy we are up against (which Ed Koch understands, as explained in his article) will be impossible to deny.
It certainly looks like the Democrats are going to end up in full control of the Congress and the Presidency for the next four to eight years, starting in '09. This will give them titular "control" of the military as well - a military which will become increasingly disheartened and demoralized.
If the country is attacked on a catastrophic level with the Democrats in control, I predict you will see the 'rats do, literally, _next to nothing_ to respond and retaliate. They have become intellectually and morally incapable of "fighting back", because to them, the REAL "enemy" is America itself. For them, it would be "wrong" to be so judgemental that they would attack another nation (for the sake of argument, Iran, for supplying the terrorists with the weapons they will most surely use). Really, who is Nancy Pelosi going to declare war on? (other than US, that is)
For this reason, if events combine a nuclear attack on America during Democratic rule, the visibile and obvious helplessness of the Democrats to react, combined with a military that longs to protect and defend America but has its hands tied by a Democratic Congress/Presidency, could presage a modern "Seven Days In May" scenario: a miltiary takeover of the government of the United States.
And I also predict that what's left of "conservative America" would not only do little to oppose such a takeover in such dark circumstances - they would actually welcome it, as the Right welcomed General Pinochet in Chile when the excesses of Allende threatened to tear the country to pieces.
By then, we may have reached the point where the only pathway to restore America will be to surrender control to a group willing to take the necessary steps to right the ship of state, in the face of electoral/legislative helplessness, division, and gridlock.
I guess to think this much is to be blasphemous. But consider: look at Chile during Allende, and Chile today. Could that nation have arrived where it is now, if the military had NOT intervened?
Such things will could never, will never happen here, right? Right?
- John