Middle Class Populist

Archive for May 26th, 2008

Sure you have heard it said that we must stay in Iraq to preserve our defense of our homeland! I believe we must leave to defend our homeland! George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain are destroying our military deterrence! When your potential enemy stares you in the face and there is a line in the sand our enemies will evaluate the cost to themselves of crossing that line! Many PC Liberals AND Neo-Con Republicans don’t seem to understand this second way George Bush is undermining military deterrence that I am going to list here in this post. While this blogger is a liberal democrat I am not a politically correct one! Let me humbly present several axioms that must be understood by both the PC Liberals and Republicans. The first is used by conservatives to ruin liberals not because it is not true but because many sugar fluff PC Liberals are so damned masochistic and they want our society to enjoy a secular version of “original sin” replacing the apple with the sin of enjoying a middle class life style!

AXIOM #1: When engaging an enemy you must be willing to kick ass else you are an ass kisser!

The above AXIOM is why both I and many Democrats accepted initially the Iraq War and why I still believe it was the right thing to do even without WMD! The issue is the social engineering experiment that followed. Remember “Mission Accomplished”? This leads us to my second humble Axiom that the Conservatives don’t seem to understand.

AXIOM #2: When confronted by American military might rogue dictators are NOT motivated by fear that they will be overthrown and replaced by a Democracy! They simply fear being overthrown by our military might!

This now leads us to understand why and how George Bush and his fellow traveler John McCain are undermining the Military Deterrence of the United States!

AXIOM #3: When confronting several rogue dictatorships you target one (maybe even the weakest) and if they do not comply you overthrow the dictator and replace his government with a friendly government then HIGH TAIL it out fast. Engage in Social Engineering Experiments only when absolutely needed as after WWII! If we engage in an extended occupation then our “perceived threat” and “willingness to take action” against our enemies is reduced! Our forces and resources will be preoccupied and your enemy knows that!

If needed we could always return and it would be easier and less costly then engaging in a Social Engineering Experiment! This leads us to our final AXIOM of MILITARY DETERRENCE!

AXIOM #4: Know your strengths and weaknesses! Our great strength is our “Shock and Awe” Technology! (Oh dear that is not politically correct). Our weakness is we don’t want to engage in extended occupations and unlike the Germans we don’t like to line rebels up against a wall and shoot them. (Perhaps this might be a good trait to learn if needed when occupation is necessary).

Now ask yourself these questions!

1. Why should Iran fear us if we cannot leave Iraq for 100 years? We must by our own rules first complete a social engineering experiment in Iraq while Afghanistan reverts to terrorists and rogue nuclear scientist’s team with Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Why should North Korea fear us? If we announce “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq we could then scare Iran and North Korea as more of our military and resources would be free! With our “Shock and Awe Military Technology” we would have a higher perceived “willingness to use it”. But if our “definition of success” requires a social engineering experiment then our perceived “willingness to act” and our “military threat” to our remaining enemies is diminished!
2. If we are trying to change Iran’s behavior then why are we willing to build an Anti-Missile Defense in Eastern Europe against rogue states like Iran or North Korea? Building such a system presupposes we are going to allow Iran to have nukes! Not to mention that it gave Putin domestic strength in Russia!

Finally we retain our Military Deterrence as long as CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS do not sell our technology to our enemies nor export our jobs. This is a Geo – Political – Economic and Military competition against the enemies of freedom! Unlike PC Liberals I support the S.D.I. initiative! I just wonder why we would build it in Europe to protect them from a rogue state when it is our policy to prevent such states from having nuclear weapons!

America’s Middle Class, which does not benefit from CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS abandoning our shores to invest in the enemies of freedom, can rest secure knowing that at least George Bush has secured our borders and ports! The Dubai Ports deal just goes to show how they place “portfolio security” over “port security”! The time has come for America’s Silent Majority, our great Middle Class to say enough!