Sympathy for the Air Marshal...
I feel your pain. Really I do. I have spent 8 years myself wondering what the hell the guy in the oval office was doing and couldn't believe the apologist on the left that were so blinded by their donkey shirt that they couldn't see the truth even if they wanted to.
As to the current situation
I think that we are all going through a paradigm shift over the role of our president and the United States' place on the world stage. I know that it is a cliche to say, but 9-11 caused it all. Had it not been for that, we would have had 8 mediocre years of W presidency where taxes went down and gun rights were left alone and that is about it.
But the reality is different. We are in un-chartered territory with this war on terrorism and hind sight and arm chair quarterbackin' make some people feel like their geniuses and give them a chance to thump the chest but, like the guy who watches jeopardy at home and aces all the questions. When they get their chance on stage, they choke on even the easiest questions.
This is not a Hollywood script where in a half of an hour all the loose end are tied up and we have a few laughs along the way. We are in a war that threatens the very fabric of American society and our way of life.
Crazy shit is gonna happen no matter whose watch its on now and we have to be prepared to take the fight to the enemy.
George W had the US abstain from the UN resolution condemning Israel for their recent military offensive. Did ANY of the A-Rab countries go on record as to say "Wow, those Americans are really coming around... Thanks!" ???? If we had vetoed the resoulution, we would have been seeing more burning flags in the Middle East and we would be lectured by the Palestinians about how biased we are.
I personally believe that going to War in Iraq was the right thing to do. I did not need the WMD argument. (I find it strange that CNN's website had NOTHING on the Sarin... You know the WMD, that was found in Iraq). The Middle East is, and has been, a festering cesspool of anti-Americanism (and Anti-Western) for a LONG time, not just under George W. The governments and royal families blame everything bad on the US and Israel to take the pressure off of their own corrupt regimes. So the average guy in the middle east is some poor bastard with a shitty standard of living that has been born and bred on anti-US sentiment while their countries wealth and resources are only benefiting the elite.
The war on terrorism is not going to be over until there is democracy and prosperity in the middle east. That is not going to happen until their regimes are toppled from within or from without. I hope that by starting Iraq on this road, that neighboring countries will see that the freedom and democracy and control over their own resources is a good thing and they will start to work harder for change in their own countries.
As Americans, we cannot wait for this process to happen "naturally" as their might not be any tall buildings to fly things into then.
Back to the trenches....
As to the current situation
I think that we are all going through a paradigm shift over the role of our president and the United States' place on the world stage. I know that it is a cliche to say, but 9-11 caused it all. Had it not been for that, we would have had 8 mediocre years of W presidency where taxes went down and gun rights were left alone and that is about it.
But the reality is different. We are in un-chartered territory with this war on terrorism and hind sight and arm chair quarterbackin' make some people feel like their geniuses and give them a chance to thump the chest but, like the guy who watches jeopardy at home and aces all the questions. When they get their chance on stage, they choke on even the easiest questions.
This is not a Hollywood script where in a half of an hour all the loose end are tied up and we have a few laughs along the way. We are in a war that threatens the very fabric of American society and our way of life.
Crazy shit is gonna happen no matter whose watch its on now and we have to be prepared to take the fight to the enemy.
George W had the US abstain from the UN resolution condemning Israel for their recent military offensive. Did ANY of the A-Rab countries go on record as to say "Wow, those Americans are really coming around... Thanks!" ???? If we had vetoed the resoulution, we would have been seeing more burning flags in the Middle East and we would be lectured by the Palestinians about how biased we are.
I personally believe that going to War in Iraq was the right thing to do. I did not need the WMD argument. (I find it strange that CNN's website had NOTHING on the Sarin... You know the WMD, that was found in Iraq). The Middle East is, and has been, a festering cesspool of anti-Americanism (and Anti-Western) for a LONG time, not just under George W. The governments and royal families blame everything bad on the US and Israel to take the pressure off of their own corrupt regimes. So the average guy in the middle east is some poor bastard with a shitty standard of living that has been born and bred on anti-US sentiment while their countries wealth and resources are only benefiting the elite.
The war on terrorism is not going to be over until there is democracy and prosperity in the middle east. That is not going to happen until their regimes are toppled from within or from without. I hope that by starting Iraq on this road, that neighboring countries will see that the freedom and democracy and control over their own resources is a good thing and they will start to work harder for change in their own countries.
As Americans, we cannot wait for this process to happen "naturally" as their might not be any tall buildings to fly things into then.
Back to the trenches....
posted by Anonymous at 5/21/2004 05:51:00 PM
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