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Hitchens : Flirting With Disaster
Hat Tip : Real Clear PoliticsI don't often want to post columnists, but this is just too good! Our favorite lefty skewers Nurse Fuzzy-Wuzzy with a sharp scalpelThe vile spectacle of Democrats rooting for bad news in Iraq and Afghanistan. By Christopher Hitchens There it was at the tail end of Brian Faler's "Politics" roundup column in last Saturday's Washington Post. It was headed, simply, "Quotable": "I wouldn't be surprised if he appeared in the next month." Teresa Heinz Kerry to the Phoenix Business Journal, referring to a possible capture of Osama bin Laden before Election Day.As well as being "quotable" (and I wish it had been more widely reported, and I hope that someone will ask the Kerry campaign or the nominee himself to disown it), this is also many other words ending in "-able." Deplorable, detestable, unforgivable... And typically Fuzzy and Wuzzy... What will it take to convince these people that this is not a year, or a time, to be dicking around? Americans are patrolling a front line in Afghanistan, where it would be impossible with 10 times the troop strength to protect all potential voters on Oct. 9 from Taliban/al-Qaida murder and sabotage. We are invited to believe that these hard-pressed soldiers of ours take time off to keep Osama Bin Laden in a secret cave, ready to uncork him when they get a call from Karl Rove? For shame... Mr. Hitchens, with his usual liberal associates, doesn't know what all us folks of the center-right, right, and libertarian ilk know; Prez. Bush had Rummy transport Osama's body from Tora-Bora to Area 51, and it is in cold storage next to the Roswell aliens from 1947...{snicker}{snicker} I have written before in this space that I think Bin Laden is probably dead, and I certainly think that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is a far more ruthless and dangerous jihadist, who is trying to take a much more important country into the orbit of medieval fanaticism and misery. One might argue about that: I could even maintain that it's important to oppose and defeat both gentlemen and their supporters. But unless he conclusively repudiates the obvious defeatists in his own party (and maybe even his own family), we shall be able to say that John Kerry's campaign is a distraction from the fight against al-Qaida. Our favorite lefty nails it again... Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-28 |
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