Posted on 11/29/2008 6:53:30 AM PST by knighthawk
With the U.S. economy in crisis, George W. Bush’s already slumping popularity levels have sagged even deeper. This summer, his own political party kept him away from its national convention in St. Paul. The President himself has been reduced to wistful hopes that history will somehow justify him.
At this low point, some counterbalance:
1) Even as you read this, Indian commandos are waging a deadly urban battle against Islamic terrorists. Those soldiers have almost certainly trained with U.S. Rangers or Marines — part of an intensifying U.S.-India security partnership that has been one of the most signal foreign policy successes of the Bush years. Otto von Bismark is supposed to have said that the most important geopolitical fact of the 20th century would be that the United States and Great Britain spoke the same language. Bush’s strategic entente with India may well prove the most important geopolitical fact of the 21st.
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“I did a quick Google search and you are quite correct, it was indeed Hadrian who applied the moniker, after the Bar Kochba revolt of 132-135 AD.”
Cool. Memory works!
Ok. I majored in engineering, not English, so I make no guarantees about my prose. On that score, I could do a better job on the grammar in my posts, but I usually try to bang those out pretty quickly. My beef is when people take little mistakes in grammar and use that to discredit your ideas.
I agree with your posts and thank you for having the courage to write them. It is sad to see how many people follow the crowd, how many allow themselves to be manipulated by the media, and it’s simply astonishing how many voted from racist reasoning.
Biggest fact of all: Bush is no conservative.
Nuf said.
My beef with Afganistan is that we have not done enough to clamp down on Pakistan. Pakistan is a big problem as they have formented much of the trouble in both Afganistan and India. So much so that their leaders and their institutions (the ISI) cannot control the malestrom they’ve created. Think a failed state with a nuclear armed Al Queda in control.
I agree with much of what you write although I don’t think getting Bin Laden is the be all and end all.
Afghanistan was crucial and we should have used nukes on those caves. Instead of Iraq we should have taken on Iran both because of its nuke potential and because it is and was the chief exporter of terror in the world.
Having said that, keeping us safe at home was Pres Bush’s job 1, and he did it. God bless him, our troops and the US of A.
Well, I would agree. I think he was a good deal better than his father in that respect, and he started well in taking the steps to defend the nation that Clinton did not have the will, leadership or perspicacity to undertake. I think he faltered not because he did not want to see us win but because he could not see the need to get beyond conventional thinking and take away the oil weapon dramatically through developing our own oil resources and because he did not have the grasp of someone like Churchill or Tom Moorer for articulation and popular leadership through inspiring and insightful use of language or for getting beyond the bubble of conventional wisdom that his family and personal background in the oil business had created.
And then you write:
but we were to determined to play nice
It's only nitpicking when the nitpicker himself doesn't know the difference between to and too.
Meanwhile, Sadam Hussein had been supporting terrorism bu paying $20,000 to the families of suicide bombers. You were cool with that?
Sadam also repeatedly defied the restrictions spelled out in the cease fire agreement. But that's alright with you?
More info.
Today’s Palestinians who use their name to claim heritage to the land have no ancient connection but are in fact nomadic newcomers. They cannot even pronounce the ‘p’ sound of their so called lineage and thus call it ‘Phalestin’ with an ‘f’ sound.
Hadrien wanted to humiliate the Jews by naming the country after their most hated enemy.
Here's a crazy idea; why don't you go learn something about the subject. Then come back and try again.
While the AQ cave complexes are no "Cheyenne Mountain," they are more high-tech then most Americans could imagine.
Tnx.
If you haven’t seen it, I recommend “The September Tapes.”
“Did you actually read the article?”
I got as far as `David Frum’.
Here’s a crazy idea; why don’t you go learn something about the subject. Then come back and try again.
Meanwhile, Sadam Hussein had been supporting terrorism bu paying $20,000 to the families of suicide bombers. You were cool with that?
why on earth are we supposed to care yet what another NeoCon who is part of a group that has almost destroyed the GOP thinks about Bush’s performance?
I agree. History will be very kind to Bush. He’s in Teddy Roosevelt’s league.
“excusem.. pardon me. I don’t hear the kumbaya song. We were led to believe all of this would go away once the One was elected...”
He still has to be annointed. That will happen in January. Until then, everything that happens between now and then is Bush’s fault.
Then everything that happens after that is still Bush’s fault. The RATS will use that play forever just like the RATS in Jersey are still blaming Whitman, 12 years later.
and I bet a lot of those ignoramuses that voted Obama into the White House are having or beginning to have the initial symptoms of a very bad case of Buyer’s remorse.
Reality is a very sobering bucket of water. Terrorism is what it is. Terrorists only understand violence, and we should give them plenty of it when dealing with them. Treaties and Good intentions... only in fairyland. you know what they say... the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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