John McCain has demonstrated that he also does not understand the “Bush Doctrine”. Telling the whole world our intentions assists the military deterrence of the Bush Doctrine! Both the Monroe and Bush doctrines receive their power if a contingency is being made public by the US Government and we have the capacity to follow through! If a foreign power does X we will respond with military action! In the case of the Monroe Doctrine if a nation involves itself in the western hemisphere we will attack! This is public knowledge and the fact that it is public is what gives the doctrine its deterrent capability! With the “Bush Doctrine” if a nation is preparing to harm us or allows others to use their territory to harm us then we will attack first. Again this contingency is only potent if an adversary knows we will attack and that we have the capacity to attack! Obama understands this and that is why he made his statement about using force in Pakistan against Al Qaeda targets if the Pakistani’s don’t take action first against Bin Ladin.
In the video above John McCain shows he understands the Bush Doctrine then in that he states before the Iraqi War we will attack. No problem here with “telegraphing” your intention! Why then does he criticize Barrack Obama when Obama stated he would attack Al Qaeda inside Pakistan if the Pakistani Government was unwilling or unable? The whole premise of the Bush Doctrine is that the potential adversary knows up front and in public that we will launch a pre-emptive strike! John McCain does not understand the Bush Doctrine! Actually McCain wants to repeat the “misapplication” of the Bush Doctrine. By closing our eyes to the growing threat of the Al Qaeda Homeland on the Pakistanni - Afghan border and instead continueing to focus on Iraq he is undermining the Bush Doctrine!
Again I actually AGREE with the Bush Doctrine! I disagree with the wrongful use of it! Let me repeat an important axiom that some of my fellow Democrats seem to forget and that gives the Re publicans fuel for elections!
When dealing with terrorists and the enemies of America you either KICK ASS or you are percieved as an ASS KISSER! There are nasty folks out there who don’t care what type of karma they are creating by using a dirty nuke on our cities! Thank God Barrack Obama seems to understand this completly and is, in my opion, stronger on national defense than John Sydney McCain!
John McCain and his fellow traveler George Bush have undermined the military deterrence of the United States by this vast wild eyed Social Engineering Experimentin Iraq! Years after the declaration of the accomplishment of the Congressional Mandated Mission, Bush and McCain have changed the mission and hence destroyed our military deterrence! Let me explain.
The best use of force is the threat of that force! But our threat of force is undermined by this vast wild eyed social engineering experiment in Iraq! We do well with fast “shock and awe” rather than extended occupations which we do not have the heart for. Besides how can we move on to the next enemy if we get sidetracked by an extended stay in Iraq? Our perceived capacity to use force is thus diminished. If we celebrated “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” then our enemies would fear our “Shock And Awe” military technology. That is if our CUT AND RUN Corporations don’t sell it to America’s enemies!
John Sidney McCain just does not seem to get it! He is wasting our troops, financial resources and our credibiity with America’s allies by this fixation with the SOCIAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT in Iraq!
Rogue regimes do not fear being overthrown and converted to democracies! They simply fear being overthrow!
What message are we sending Iran if we say we will not allow them to have nuclear weapons yet we are building a Missile Defense shield in Eastern Europe whose sole purpose is to protect Europe from a rogue state having a few nuclear missiles! The very premise of the missile shield is that we are going to allow Iran to have nukes!
John McCain shows even more bad judgment in that he would not meet with potential enemies! We spoke to the Soviet Union. Besides we can always cut off talks if they do not bear fruit. But the purpose of meeting with them is that they can see our willingness to fight if they cross the line. Also it is a means to give an adversary a face saving mechanism to change their course! Finally it gives us creditability with our allies who can help us bear the cost should war be needed!
John Sydney McCain and Sarah Palin just do not have the judgment to defend the United States!
Yes I am a Democrat and a progressive liberal. But I am glad to see that our military has successfully tested another instance of Star Wars technology. This time it was from the ocean against two incoming missiles and both incoming missiles from outer space were destroyed! Yes I am against the War in Iraq. But I am for taking aggressive strategic action to defend our nation and our way of life against the bad guys out there! This may come as an Inconvenient Truth to some of my fellow Democrats, but there are people out there who do not care what kind of karma they are sowing!
Life has more than two choices! One can be against the “War in Iraq” yet still support aggressive strategic action to defend our nation and our way of life! Oh dear now I did it! Am I part of the Military Industrial Complex? Hell no they don’t even exist much anymore! Those companies have turned into CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS. They are now transforming themselves from “American” corporations into “Multinationals”. They ship our jobs and technology overseas, frequently even to the enemies of freedom for the buck! It seems no one is minding the store anymore!
Politically Correct liberal Democrats are to busy apologizing to the enemies of America! Republicans see things differently! Republicans see the enemies of freedom and our way of life not as enemies but as “Investment Opportunities”! These Cut and Run Capitalists don’t care about “Port Security” but rather “Portfolio Security”! Halliburton’s CEO now has his headquarters in Dubai.
You remember Dubai! That’s the nice country our CIA asked to stop a shipment of centrifuges that was routed through their port to Pakistan! But Dubai would not comply. Now Pakistan has nukes and is about to meltdown with Al Qaeda at home in Pakistan’s mountains. So how did the Republicans react to Dubai? Why they wanted to let these nice folks in Dubai have control of our major ports! Thank God the Silent Majority of this nation said “NO” to Bush and his fellow travelers!
Well at least Bush pushed for the testing of an Anti-Missile Defense system. Problem is they want to place it in Eastern Europe where it gives political ammunition to Putin. Most Europeans don’t want this system! Even worse, look at the message Bush sends to Iran! We say we will not tolerate Iran having nukes but then that is the whole presupposition to building this system in Eastern Europe, that Iran will have nukes!
What is this masochism that both political parties seem to exhibit? Politically Correct Democrats argue against a missile defense system saying it is too difficult. Yet these same folks were arguing some years back for the creation of massive orbiting solar collectors that would beam a concentrated beam of energy back to receiving stations on earth. God help us if the angle was thrown off by just a fraction! Strange you can shoot a Star Wars type concentrated beam down to earth but not up at an incoming missile! Are we to return to the days of M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) when China rises to a global nuclear power? China could even be an enemy if she turns democratic as her population is so large and their middle class is growing. They will also want access to Middle Eastern oil. Isn’t it time we develop, on a massive scale, some sort of alternative energy? We must place “National Security” over “Corporate Security”. We need to see things beyond the “liberal - conservative” dichotomy!
In this 21st Centruy, rugged individualism is being threatened by the Neo-Collectivists of the Corporations. They place their corporate profits over the national interests even divesting themselves of their American identity. Guess who will discover their “American” identity when there are profits to be made in the build up against China? The very peril that they helped to create they will seek to profit from! The “Programmer’s Guild” has sent an alert to it’s members concerning an amendment to a Border Security Bill that would raise the number of H1-B Visa holders. Thus destroying further Middle Class jobs and dreams in the interest of the Cut And Run Capitalists! What jobs these Collectivists cannot ship overseas they will undermine at home. Thus even the recent success of our anti-missile system is undermined by the loss of our technological advantage!
The time has come for America’s Silent Majority - our great Middle Class, to stand up and take our nation back from these effete snobs of the corporate class! These same effete snobs who want to reduce our Middle Class freedoms to serdom in the Neo-Collectivist dream of Multi-National Corporationism! They scream at Universal Health Care and “Fair Trade” they prefer we surrender our Middle Class dreams to sing their new Multi-National Corporate Internationale! I say no! God Bless America!
I am a Liberal Democrat of the NON-PC persuasion. I believe the continuation of the War in Iraq is wrong! I do believe in a vigorous proactive “strike first” strategy against nuclear proliferation and terrorism.
This world is loaded with people who are not nice and don’t care what type of Karma they sow! Yes I know this will come as an “Inconvenient Truth” to some in my own party!
However George Bush has wasted American lives and our national resources in this neo-con social engineering experiment in Iraq. Meanwhile Afghan opium production is through the ceiling and it will finance not only a Taliban resurgence but will also assist Al Qaeda in acquiring nuclear materials for either a nuclear bomb or a dirty bomb! With the dynamic combination of record profits from Afghan opium and the Pakistani scientific and military intelligence consortium, the weather forecast looks good for a mushroom cloud over one or more of our cities. The sad thing is no one is doing a damn thing about it! For all their blabbering George Bush and his fellow travelers in the Republican Party have the correct strategy but the wrong battle field!
Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon - PERIOD! Yes we should try diplomacy which Bush has not done. Naturally that is based on the silly presumption that our ambassador and his staff would not be held hostage by Iran! They never did say they were sorry for that now did they! Also it would be nice if the person we spoke to on the other side of the table did not believe America is wicked and the enemy of God! Wacky Iranian President Ahmadinejad believes there are no Gays in Iran! He also believed that a halo surrounded him as he spoke the last time to the United Nations. Many in this country say that since there is a strong middle class in Tehran it would counter act the fanaticism of the Mullahs. Perhaps but I don’t want the security of my nation to be in the hands of the good will of Iran’s middle class! Besides if the button is pushed in Tehran there will be no consultation with Iran’s middle class!
Meanwhile Bush is preparing an anti-missile system for Europe that most don’t want and is driving a wedge between us and Russia. By playing on fear Putin is weaning Russia away from democracy! Bush is Putin’s enabler in this quest.
Most important is the message that Bush is sending to Iran with the proposed European nuclear anti-missile system! The presumption of such a system is that America will allow Iran to have nukes! This destroys any creditability we have in discussions with Iran presuming Bush would have such discussions! Iran cannot be allowed to have nukes! They could be given or sold to terrorists, who could then deliver them to their targets in America without ICBM’s. Both Iran and North Korea get away with this because of our damaged military deterrence from the continued Iraq War!
The war in Iraq has weakened our nation in several respects. A wise general knows his army, resources and the terrain before he commits to a battle. Some in both political parties feel we should not proactively fight a war on terrorism! I totally disagree. My disagreement with Bush is his choice of the battlefield and his tactics. We must face several issues concerning our nation and the War on Terrorism:
We excel at “Shock and Awe” (Mother Goddess forgive me for being politically incorrect)! But we don’t want to engage in extended occupations! If we understand and accept that generally we don’t want to get involved in extended occupations, then we can devise more appropriate military solutions!
The War in Iraq damaged our reputation in the world in that no WMD were found. Future accusations by our intelligence community will not be trusted by our allies! Even rational people in America will have cause to wonder.
We don’t want to advertise our dislike for casualties. Especially not against an Islamic foe that sends its members to commit suicide! Actually the losses we suffered in Iraq are very minimal compared to other wars we have been in. The issue is that we paid a price for NOTHING! We excel at shock and awe so we should have done so and then left after installing a friendly General who would pay lip service to democracy.
Democracy may not be the answer in the Middle East. Just look at Palestine! The folks in the street hate us and there is little we can do about it! Yes I know this is hard for a Vietnam era hippie like myself to say but it is true! We need to restore our CIA’s ability to engage cut throats and covert operations to over throw rogue regimes! Think of it this way! Overthrowing the “Dear Leader” of North Korea and the Mullahs of Iran is a GREEN SOLUTION rather than a Red bloody solution. It is not only cost effective but has less of an environmental impact. CIA covert regime change of rogue governments is eco-friendly!
North Korea has still not been tamed! What the heck where they doing in Syria?
Our economy is a valuable weapon lets not waste it by exporting American jobs and technology to the enemies of freedom!
The time has come for America’s Silent Majority: our great Middle Class to take back our nation from these effete snobs of George Bush and his fellow travelers!
Yet again President Bush tries to make the case that the war in Iraq is the same as the war on terrorism! What drives me crazy is some of the guys I work with have a knee jerk reaction in support of this President! The same President Bush who bragged to his college professor that he did not have to do his time in the National Guard! Yet he takes advantage of the duty and patriotism of Army Reserve and National Guard members NOT behaving as he did!
Bush gets away with this because he supports “kicking ass” as he said in Australia. The problem is that many Democrats are afraid to “enjoy” the fact that we really did kick ass in Afghanistan initially! Sometimes it takes more than mere objective logic. The hell with being politically correct! Let me repeat a maxim that my fellow Democrats must learn!
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“With terrorists if you do not kick ass then you are perceived as kissing ass”!
You can look down your nose at this statement but the fact is Americans believe in this and I have to admit I do also! The question is however “whose ass are we kicking with this war in Iraq?” Certainly not Al Qaeda! We are not making our nation more secure, even General Petraeus in his testimony admitted that. Our nation excels at “shock and awe” which uses our superior technological capabilities! George Bush has changed this to “bleed and gore” in an occupation that never had enough troops and serves no national objective! Why are we involved in this civil war in Iraq? Especially when Afghanistan is growing record opium crops that will be used to finance terrorism against our homeland! Meanwhile Bin Laden runs free in the mountains of the Afghan - Pakistan border! This is where we should now be “kicking ass” before we get struck again.
Bush has “boundary issues”. He cannot defend our own borders where 3,000 people cross illegally each day nor for that matter the Iraqi - Iranian border where weapons are crossing to kill our brave troops! Don’t forget our ports where most cargo containers are still not inspected six years after the attack of 9-11! Oh but Bush did want to relieve us of that responsibility by turning over our major ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates! Then this idiot has the nerve to talk about terrorists following us home from Iraq!
But we can all breathe easy now that Bush has just recently opened further our wide open borders to Mexican trucks! Yes please tell us Mr. Bush, once again how the terrorists are going to follow us home if we leave Iraq! Yet while under your watch Mr. Bush, Afghan opium production has grown to world record highs with the money going to Al Qaeda! Yes tell us how they are going to follow us home Mr. President while next door to this massive terrorist fundrasing operation some of the nice nuclear scientists in next door Pakistan have extremists beliefs and want to kill us! With the marriage of Afghan opium money and Pakistani nuclear smarts plus our wide open borders, does anyone see the mushroom cloud over our cities coming? Ah but I am being an alarmist!
What makes me sleep secure in my bed is the knowledge that our national security is backed by Michael Chertoff! With Bush and his side kick, Michael Chertoff, at the head of our Homeland Security, and Chertoff’s great tack record, surely a mushroom cloud over New York City is indeed a forgone return on idiocy! So my fellow Americans when the dirty nuclear dust cloud starts to fall on us remember the FALLING CHADS as this is indeed a return on idiocy! God help America!
This blog is against being politically correct. As you can tell by many of my posts I am a loyal Democrat who is against the War in Iraq. But in this post I wish to caution my fellow Democrats from viewing the world with “rosy” colored glasses. This is especially true when it comes to Russia and China. NBC Nightly news ran a news article on a youth group in Russia called “Nashi”. The group has government links and is a sort of “Boy/Girl Scouts” Putin style. Just imagine if the American Boy Scouts had Bush’s picture at every outing and our youth were called the “Bush Generation”! Well that is what the Russians are doing with their scouting equivalent called “Nashi”!
They are running military style camps and becoming political street thugs like the German SA of years past. They harass the political opposition. Imagine our Boy Scouts being used for such a purpose! When I was a youth I resented being dictated to. I guess some Russian youths are so desperate for a camping trip that they are willing to be called the “Putin Generation”!
Meanwhile the Russians are resuming long range bomber patrols! In their defense however our beloved President had decided to build the Europeans a “Nuclear Shield” against rogue nuclear armed states. Bush did this before the Russian decision on increased military activity!
I have stated in this blog “just what is the message Bush is sending Iran by building this shield”? The presumption is that we are going to sit back and let the Iranians build nuclear weapons while shaking our fists saying that we are not going to allow them to do this. Meanwhile the only thing this European shield is gong to do is alienate the Russians because Bush has decided to place the installations on the Russian border in Europe!
For those Bushies who are reading this you might take note that western Europe is where heath care seems to be universal along with strong government commitment for employee rights. Hey they can afford their own missile defense! Damn there I go again! This particular post is against Putin but I still stuck some jabs at Bush. Sorry cannot help it. But my point is that in America I don’t have to worry about our Boy Scouts harassing me for speaking out against the Administration, while in Russia their version of the Boy Scouts does harass for political purposes!
This blogger will attack both the left and the right when Democratic Ideals are at stake. I applaud NBC for their coverage of this issue! This nation had better regulate it’s investors from placing American capital into the hands of nations that pose a threat to our national security interest! There is nothing wrong with overseas investments as long as it fosters FAIR TRADE rather than serving as reinforcement for slave labor as in China!
Our national security must come before portfolio security! We are living in a Brave New World and the orthodoxies of liberalism and conservatism must be subjugated to the needs of America’s Silent Majority! That is to say our great Middle Class and those who aspire to be! God Bless America!
Additional Reader Resources to visit concerning the situation in Russia!
Back in the 60’s when the Vietnam War was the big discussion in college dorms, the issue was how to end the Vietnam War fast. Bleed slowly or take dynamic action such as blasting the Viet Cong from their safe haven in Cambodia! Barack Obama, who said he wants to turn the page from those days, seems to be reliving the very same issues, though the stage is different. Back then I believed America should first decide if it is our fight, then if so, fight to win or not make the investment! Nixon started to be dynamic then he went back to the “slow endless bleed” strategy that gave us the Vietnam and Korean Wars! I still believe our nation must strategically “choose” it’s fields of battle then once chosen fight to win! Just make sure it is the right war first! The war in Iraq is a waste but not the war in Afghanistan and Waziristan which is the heartland of Al Qaeda!
One way that Republicans can beat the Democrats is if they could separate their bad strategy in Iraq from the war on terrorism. When it comes to terrorism I believe in the Bush Doctrine of “Pre-emptive Strike”. My problem with Bush is that he took us into a side show in Iraq instead of fighting the War on Terror! How can one person have such a great idea as the doctrine of “The Pre-Emptive Strike”, then pig headedly undermine his whole strategy and our national seucrity by:
A side show in Iraq.
The Dubai Ports Deal,
Leaving our borders wide open,
His failure to control and inspect cargo in our ports six years after 9/11
Complete lack of control concerning the various Visa programs by allowing aliens to remain in this nation when their time is up. Most of the 9-11 hijackers initially came to this nation legally!
Barrack Obama did an excellent job in a recent speech even though some Democrats criticized him! Obama stated that he would meet with the leaders of rogue nations as Regan did with the leaders of the Soviet Union. Barak Obama also said he would attack Al Qaeda in both Afghanistan and Pakistan if our nation was threatened.
Shortly after our nation was born we took Florida because the Spanish, who owned it at the time, could not control the Native American tribes that attacked our then southern border in Georgia! Yes it is true the Spanish did not have nuclear weapons as the Pakistani’s do. But what are we to do wait till a Pakistani scientist gives Al Qaeda nuclear secrets and/or materials? Attacking Al Qaeda inside of Pakistan could entail a problem with China who is chummy with Pakistan! But if Pakistan cannot control Waziristan then it is not a part of Pakistan. If Americans are presented with the choice of sitting idly by while we get attacked again or being proactive, this nation will chose the latter! The problem for the Republicans is that Iraq is not being pro-active! But none the less many Americans would even prefer that to doing nothing in regards to Al Qaeda in Pakistan. Al Qaeda is again threatening our Homeland. They have released a new video saying they will destroy the White House!
Barack Obama came across as a Populist Democrat rather than a PC Democrat. He sounds like a welcome change especially after Hillary Clinton snuggled up to Microsoft and the Silicon Valley crowd when she supported destroying American Middle Class jobs in the technology sector! Hillary Clinton said Barack Obama is naive. Well if Hillary Clinton thinks she can support the H1-B Visa program and the American Middle Class will look the other way then she is naive not Obama!
Ah yes it is summer time in Afghanistan. You remember Afghanistan, where under Bush, we allowed Osama Bin Ladin to escape into the mountains of our dear friend Pakistan! With friends like that who needs enemies! But then again where are we going to get the resources for our H1-B Visa program so corporate America can lower the salaries of computer and technical professionals without Pakistan (and India)? Well I will leave that for another post! It seems like only last year I was writing about the wonderful bumper crop of opium that Afghanistan produced! You know the drug that is killing our youth and financing, in part the terrorism of Al Qaeda! While George Bush continues his obsession with Iraq, Afghanistan continues to sink into decay. But this year their world renowned expertise in raising opium even surpassed last year’s crop! Mission accomplished!
This blogger agrees with conservatives in some respects. In the War on Terror our nation needs to take vigorous, aggressive and decisive action! But our theater of operations should be Afghanistan not Iraq! Instead of merely kicking Saddam out of power our President decided to engage in a Social Engineering Experiment! Meanwhile the real war is still not won in Afghanistan. Opium is being raised at record levels yet again this year. It will addict our youth and finance the terrorists!
This blog tries to advance the cause of the Middle Class and a vigorous Pro-American Populist political agenda! Bush has got to be the biggest misfit we have had as President this century! I say that because while I am a Democrat, I believe in some of his ideas! Let us examine how he has taken good ideas and done a “katrina” on each of them:
Missile Defense System instead of sole reliance on M.A.D. Great idea but don’t build it in Europe where you will make an enemy of Russia! Besides if it is built there it sends the wrong signal to Iran! While we say we will not tolerate Iran having nukes this system in Europe PRESUMES WE WILL! What message is Bush sending our enemies?
The doctrine of pre-emptive strike! I believe this is a good idea with rouge states. But look at how Bush has worked against his own doctrine! We lose creditability by defining victory as not simply the overthrowing of a dictator like Hussein but adding the criteria he must be replaced by a democracy. Good luck! Iran doesn’t have to fear we will move against her as Iraq will tie us up for years! Hell we cannot even secure Bagdad!
The use of military force to KICK ASS after 9-1. Good idea just the wrong implementation of it!
The use of strong arm tactics to induce terrorists to talk! Even Allan Dershowitzthe, the notorius liberal lawyer, has said he would back this as long as a warrant was obtained! However just packing anyone off to Guantanamo is not the answer. Also what guarantee do we have that future Presidents would not use such a power against American citizens who disagreed with them?
By the way why isn’t the news media zeroing in on the bumper crop of opium in Afghanistan? I bet many of you reading this are thinking that I am referring to 2006! Yes there was a bumper crop then also. However the U.N. has stated Afghanistan has done it again in 2007! Yet no one in Congress is screaming that our troops and tax dollars are being wasted while Afghanistan has a bumper crop of opium yet again! Here we have an incidence of the news media acting almost if it is an agent of the neo-cons! The news media is also only now discovering the genocide in Darfur! No I don’t really believe the news media is pro-conservative! But imagine how the conservatives would be screaming if it were the other way around!
While Afghanistan crumbles and our borders remain wide open with our ports having only 5% of their cargo inspected, this bozo tells us that Iraq is the center for the war on terror! Imagine if we had allowed him to go through with his Dubai Ports deal? Meanwhile the Cut and Run Capitalists at Halliburton have moved their corporate CEO’s HQ to Dubai!
The time has come for America’s Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to take our nation back from these effete snobs who squander the lives of our youths and our capital. God Bless America!
Well some here at home think a Missile Shield is an impossibility, apparently Russian President Putin is concerned about facing one at his border! The Russian President has proposed that we relocate it to Azerbaijan and our government has stated this is an interesting idea! While I have been very critical of Bush in this blog I do like his idea of a nuclear shield. Yes I am critical of the Iraqi War but this blog is not a simple knee jerk left wing blog. I am a Lou Dobbs Non-PC Democrat. The fact that Bush would even consider such a shield in Europe raises some very interesting possibilities! I even wonder if the proposal to place it in Europe was not serious but a ploy to make the Russians support us or at least not oppose America using a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear installations! But that might be imputing George “Katrina” Bush with far too much competence and geo-political savvy!
An opposing issue with the missile shield is that it presupposes that Iran will be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. The problem with Iran is not just that these weapons could be used by her military locally, but as Giuliani has stated, they could be then delivered to our cities by terrorists. That is the greater danger to America! There is no Star Wars response to that.
I applaud Rudy Giuliani for stating this. The problem with Giuliani is that because he and his fellow Republicans have kept us in Iraq long after we should have left, we are no longer a deterrent to Iran.
Mr. Giuliani does not realize that rogue regimes do not fear being overthrown and transformed into democracies! They simply fear being overthrown! If the latter had been our strategy with Iraq then Iran would fear us! But with our “overburdened definition of success” it will be decades before we can move beyond Iraq since the neo-cons want us to be involved in this social engineering experiment forever! Hence we are not perceived as a threat by Iran.
If Giuliani and McCain are serious about defending our Homeland and they believe in their scenario of a terrorist nuclear strike then forget Iraq and start working on Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, Waziristan and Pakistan! Isn’t that enough to worry about!
Maybe the Republican candidates don’t understand that after six year of control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Presidency our borders are still wide open as are America’s ports. Iraqi terrorists, if they did get a nuclear device, would tag up covertly with the United Arab Emirates Company that Bush wanted to run our ports. But no matter we are turning over our highways to Mexican truckers so the bomb will come from Al Qaeda via “MEX-EXPRESS”!
I applaud Bush on his Missile Defense Shield and his doctrine of “Pre-Emptive Deterrence” against a nuclear terrorist attack. The problem is that he has done a “Katrina” on his few good ideas by his commitment to the social engineering experiment in Iraq. The social engineering experiment will never work in Iraq on the cheap as Bush has committed to this project. The American Middle Class does not want to pay the price to have this social engineering experiment succeed in Iraq. While Bush and his fellow travelers laud creationism over evolution and support the Christian right with it’s nutty ideas to encourage Israel to occupy the whole of Palestine so as to bring about the second coming, let us remember that western democracy was brought about after long religious wars and the rise of Secular Humanism. By the way I am not an atheist but an Episcopalian!
Lets explore a nuclear shield and a Walled Border! God Bless America!
The time has come for a populist perspective concerning Iran and Iraq. Today Iran’s President announced his nuclear program is like a “train with no brake”. While Bush squanders our troops and finances on Iraq, Iran has been working on it’s own nuclear weapons program. Oh I can hear the chorus from the politically correct, “what right do we wicked evil Americans have to tell a third world nation what to do”! Yes I am a liberal democrat but I am tired of:
The overt anti-American attitude from the left and
The covert anti-Americanism from the right.
Let’s not forget the corporate aristocracy of the right.
These folks have no problem trading our technology and jobs to China. The problem is that Iran does not have an equivalent economic or population base as China; else these parasites from the corporate world would be investing in Iran! For now they are satisfied with government contracts in serving our military in Iraq while helping China build her economic base in the east.
With Iran’s smaller economic base, corporations from second rate nations like France, Germany and Russia will have to do the investing in Iran! Makes you wonder maybe we should not always be mad at these nations. They suffer from the same parasites as we do! Only their parasites are harming our national interest in areas where “our parasites” see insufficient profit! While I am against the War in Iraq, I support the “Bush Doctrine”. I just wish George Bush would follow his own doctrines. But then how can he support his own doctrine to pre-empt attacks on our homeland when after six years in office, and despite the terror attacks of 9-11, our nation’s borders are wide open!
We cannot allow third world nations to develop nuclear weapons - PERIOD! The average middle class American turns on their TV only to see constant images of Shiites whipping themselves into a frenzy and drawing their own blood while calling this a “religious experience”! Can you imagine these people having a nuclear weapon? Even without a full grade nuclear bomb they would be capable of launching acts of nuclear terrorism using reactor materials! Besides the 77 virgins are waiting!
Our national strength lies in:
Covert action to topple Iran’s leaders and
“Shock and awe” technology. You know the same technology that the Cut and Run Capitalists have no problem exporting to China!
Extensive use of ground troops is not one of our strengths because this involves higher losses.
Furthermore military occupations require the use of executions. This is a fact of life that does not penetrate the minds of the diners at Vegan eateries! We don’t live in a nice world folks! Sometimes decisive action is needed. Problem is that Bush is really indecisive as militia’s should never have been allowed to form in Iraq. Now we want the Iraqis to do the job that Bush had no guts for! We should have left Iraq long ago. Iraq is not the battle field for the war on terror.
A Middle Class populist perspective demands that both the masochistic PC liberals with their “hate America guilt trip agenda” and the “Cut and Run Capitalists” who want to export our jobs and technology to the enemies of freedom, be simultaneously challenged in our political arenas!
These nut cases in Shiite Iran and Sunni Al Qaeda don’t care about running up “bad karma”. Why should they when they can get the 77 Virgins! The Cut And Run Capitalists who export American jobs and technology don’t care about the damage to our society either! They will lie down in bed with China to curb freedom on the Chinese internet. I believe that is what is termed “ethical relativism”. You know the term that is lobbied at democrats! Cut and Run Capitalists don’t care that these practices endanger our way of life. They don’t even want to identify themselves as Americans but as “Multi-Nationals”.
The time has come for America’s great Silent Majority - The Middle Class (and those who aspire to be) to take our nation back from these effete snobs of both the left and right. God Bless America!
Well actually while the British are pulling out from Iraq they are sending other troops to Afghanistan. Maybe that is a lesson President Bush should ponder. Al Qaeda is growing stronger in Afghanistan and now even in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. This was one of the first provinces our troops overran. To bad we got involved in a neo-con “Social Engineering Experiment” in Iraq.
Bush is doing a “Katrina” on the War on Terrorism! Hell I was initially for the war until two events occurred.
No Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction where found.
The Bush Flip/Flop concerning “nation building”. Now we are bogged down trying to build a democracy.
The real tragedy of this war is that many people are starting to believe that our nation has only two choices. We must fight to place a democratic government in Iraq or accept that we are powerless outside of our borders and in the eyes of the world.
Neither choice is correct. Every good general knows his army’s strengths and weaknesses! Given the level of troop deployment we are currently willing to use, including the “so-called” surge, then I propose the following for our national self analysis:
STRENGTHS: Shock and awe! We can really kick butt just so long as we have a defined enemy and we don’t have to concern ourselves with the aftermath of rebuilding the nation we defeat. Place a friendly Junta in power that will give all the niceties of being pro-democratic but leave the threat of our superior military technology to kick their butt in the future if they don’t behave.
WEAKNESS: Given the level of troops we are willing to deploy then an occupation and extensive social engineering experiment is not possible. Our society does not have the stomach to take those who oppose us and simply shoot them. This would be better left to surrogates. That is also why an extensive occupation is not desirable!
We could achieve victory in Iraq even in the current situation. The issues are:
Is it in the national interest? Why Iraq and not Darfur with the genocide and Islamic fascism taking place there?
Are we willing to reinstate the draft and increase the occupation force to say 600,000 troops?
Are we willing to remove EVERY militia in Iraq as we should have done prior to turning over the government to the Iraqi’s? Yes it is our fault not al-Maliki. Did we leave SS troops in Germany?
Let’s face some “Inconvenient Truths”.
To win we are facing people who are not very nice. They use electric drills to torture their victims. They don’t care about their karma but rather the 77 Virgins! Do we have the guts to create a necktie party in Iraq? If not then maybe we should just butt out of Iraq as Afghanistan and Iran are where the danger is. Finally if Iran needs decisive action maybe our nation should return to the good ole days when the CIA with some hired cut throats could effect regime change in a nation like Iran. If non-military covert actions did not do the trick then our strength at “Shock and Awe” should be used. Mr. President, know your goal, know your ability and capacity to commit. Only then take decisive action. In the case of Iraq we won! No WMD! Want to fight Islamic fascism, why not Darfur?
If and that is important, if Iran is developing nuclear weapons she must be stopped. If we cannot do it by covert action then our superior military technology must be utilized. If Iran tries to wage war against the world’s oil resources then we must not simply attack their military but their economy without occupation. They must be blasted into the Stone Age if need be.
Liberals must face this inconvenient truth, that in war we fight to WIN. Any other objective is defeat! That is a lesson Bush, with all his bravado has yet to learn! President Bush has done a “Katrina” on this nation’s war on terror. We are in the wrong theater and we are only using half measures! Time to get redeploy from Iraq! Time to seal our borders!
