Posted on 02/06/2008 8:48:40 AM PST by Graybeard58
Historians credit left-wingers with coining "politics of fear" to belittle Sen. Joseph McCarthy's campaign against communists in the U.S. government. The phrase went into hibernation in the 1960s, a torpidity even warmonger-in-waiting Lyndon Johnson's daisy-girl ad couldn't disturb, only to reemerge in the 1980s to denigrate Ronald Reagan's Cold War-winning strategy.
These days, the phrase has become the lefties' No. 1 rhetorical trump card against the war against Islamic terrorism. To them, Americans have more to fear from the Bush administration than from the terrorists who seek to bring America to heel. Sen. Barack Obama uses it in almost every stump speech to criticize anyone who opposes his appeasement strategy.
But last week's al-Qaida-sponsored suicide bombings in Baghdad have put the politics of fear in its proper light. Terrorists sent two mentally retarded women, one carrying a backpack filled with ball bearings and shrapnel and the other wearing an explosive vest, to wander through bazaars thronged with women and children. Terrorists remotely detonated the bombs, killing 99 people and ushering in the Era of the Unwitting Martyr.
The bombings were depraved even by al-Qaida standards, but they gave rise to optimism among left-wing bloggers that al-Qaida is adapting to U.S. antiterrorism strategies. To be sure, the world is numb to the carnage of improvised explosive devices and suicide bombs; blowing up the retarded may be jihadists' latest gimmick for striking fear into the hearts of the infidel and demonstrating their utter disregard for human life.
But the attacks also are a sign U.S. successes in Iraq are affecting al-Qaida's ability to recruit suicide bombers. Running out of zealots willing to give their lives for a perverted cause, they are left to dupe and exploit those lacking the intellectual capacity to know better.
Perhaps this is why Sen. Obama has been silent on Friday's bombings; even a passing reference would be a tacit admission that al-Qaida never will be appeased, that the "politics of fear" is really just common sense that liberals practicing the politics of naiveté cannot or will not grasp. The bombings prove anew it's not fear-mongering to tell Americans they are safer with a president who wields a muscular foreign policy than with one who believes he can appease a despicably brutal enemy bent on America's annihilation.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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I am not planning to vote for Hillary or Obama.
About the only candidate I would have found it difficult to vote for was Giuliani, and he’s gone.
I can vote for John McCain. I won’t like it one bit, but I can vote for him.
It would be easier if he picked a VP that looked like he could run the country if McCain keels over.
That isn’t Huckabee in my opinion.
I am not planning to vote for Hillary or Obama.
About the only candidate I would have found it difficult to vote for was Giuliani, and he’s gone.
I can vote for John McCain. I won’t like it one bit, but I can vote for him.
It would be easier if he picked a VP that looked like he could run the country if McCain keels over.
I’d rather it be a fully acceptable conservative who could keep McCain in check, rather than Huckabee. But I don’t know who that is, all the good conservatives have already trashed McCain which kind of rules them out.
They want to surrender to the UN which is already pwned by Islamic terrorists.
In a global climate of international terrorism and assassinations, ANY president can "keel over". McCain's age/health doesn't make him the only one likely to do so.
And if Hillary were Obama's VP, he'd probably make it two years before having an accident so she'd be elligible for the "full 10" years as President.
You need to ready the latest update on Obama entitled "Islam's Battle For The White House" to see clearly how an Obama victory will increase (not decrease) radicalism.
“But the attacks also are a sign U.S. successes in Iraq are affecting al-Qaida’s ability to recruit suicide bombers. Running out of zealots willing to give their lives for a perverted cause, they are left to dupe and exploit those lacking the intellectual capacity to know better.” The use of retarded females for bomb carriers is but a temporary use. The al Qaida children being trained to murder and maim need time to learn the ‘trade’.
Perdue, eh? If I'm not mistaken, his family has murdered millions of chickens!
No they were not. I have personally witness terrorists putting bombs inside dead corpses (to kill family members when they pick up the body), mining children's play fields to solely kill children and have read about them kidnapping children to ride with suicide bombers to arouse less suspicion...
I liked him too, until he started taking the GOP Governors Assoc. left of McCain. We have to stop this leftward drift.
from the wards of Iraqi mental hospitals to the democratic party here in America
these creeps are more successful than this article implies
from the wards of Iraqi mental hospitals to the democratic party here in America
these creeps are more successful than this article implies
"Democracy in America is doomed when the people learn to vote themselves money from the public trough..." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
"Democracy in America is doomed when the people learn to vote themselves money from the public trough..." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
L Hells Bells...just go to the next Hitlery Rally for folks fitting that description....
Excellent editorial!
I could make all sorts of analogies, but the real point is that we are going to be up s~~t creek without a paddle regardless of who is elected now.
Either way, we are going to have amnesty bringing along with it millions of new Democrat voters, and many millions of more in a few years after.
So, we get McCain elected (ain’t gonna happen, but let’s suppose for the sake of discussion) and he continues some sort of fight against terrorism. When he gets through with his open borders agenda, he will certainly be the last Republican President for a very long time, if ever perhaps. Then, complete capitulation against terrorism.
Basically, we surrender now to the terrorists with a Democrat or do it in 4 years with a Democrat. Some choice, huh?
The loonies at DU ought to be creamin’ in their jockeys thinking about McCain as the nominee. It’s a win-win for the left.
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