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| Very Useful Idiots : VDH From Iraq per Dems |
| 2007-11-16 |
| One notices odd things when in Iraq about the American political situation back home: 1. Iraqis associate cynicism, even anti-Arabism not with hard-nosed Republicans, but with liberal, supposedly idealistic Democratic liberals, whose serial trashing of them is constantly aired in Iraq; 2. that the Democrats are serving, rightly or wrongly, as sorts of useful idiots in being referenced as a valuable "bad cop" foil to warn the Iraqis to speed it up, lest the domestic forces they fear all too well will cut off funds; 3. invested as it is in the defeat of the US, the leftist base won't let Democrats get out on front of the changing battlefield in Iraq: the result is a "reform" team of brilliant officers in Iraq who are winning the war, and whose commander the Democrats gratuitously trashed rather than claimed credit for by demanding changes in policy. Before they once claimed they wanted changes at DOD and Centcom to shake things up; they got their wish; and now turned on their once favorites like Petraeus-while giving Republicans sole stewardship for the changed and improving circumstances of the war. 4. The result: if the Democrats don't wise up, its leadership will have done the impossible. As bad cops they alienate the Iraqis and make the Republicans look statesmanlike while giving them leverage in pressuring the government to make changes (e.g., Look you sheiks! it's us-or the unhinged Harry Reid); and two, leave a loud trail of defeatism that somehow amplifies in direct proportion to improved news from Iraq. In short, their loud cut-offs and timetable talk will strengthen our poker hand in Iraq while earning Democrats the charge of fickleness and cynical illiberality; they shunned natural allies like the PhD Petraeus, and his sophisticated highly educated colonels, whom they once in 2004 in fact claimed needed to be listened to; and will now have their clips played all during summer 2008 as defeatists even as the news from the front continues to improve. It's like watching Oedipus Rex around line 700-a tragedy that cannot be averted given it was someday inevitable once they mortgaged the party to fringe extremism. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #11 And, not an 'ex' re: the Jacksonian, just re: the 'Dem'. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-11-16 21:14 |
| #10 Jacksonian more than Hamiltonian. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-11-16 21:13 |
| #9 ex-Jacksonian? I thought Jacksonians were like the Marines. Though I'd have thought you a Hamiltonian. But ex-Dem, that makes sense. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-16 21:08 |
| #8 The Democrats have use for the military. Only in a domestic capability against Americans... http://www.hkpro.com/image/actionelian3.jpg http://www.serendipity.li/waco/tanks1.jpg |
| Posted by: Injun Flavise8457 2007-11-16 21:07 |
| #7 What do you expect from an ex-Jacksonian-Dem, NS? Wish it were otherwise, but I'm old and tired enough to call a friggin' spade a spade. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-11-16 20:58 |
| #6 The Democrats are more on the order of the Eurostar ad: a skinhead pissing an arching stream into a teacup as an enticement to tourists. |
| Posted by: RWV 2007-11-16 20:47 |
| #5 They don't hope to command it - they hope to hollow it out even more than Clinton did. I should have known I could count on you to come up with an even cheerier interpretation. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-16 20:44 |
| #4 It is just hard to believe that a national party would go so far to alienate the military it hopes to command in the future They don't hope to command it - they hope to hollow it out even more than Clinton did. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-11-16 20:26 |
| #3 The Democrats lost their honor around the time of the 1968 Democratic national convention when the precursors to the Kos kiddies took control. Since that time progress has occurred in America in spite of their efforts. Today their main function is to act as the mote of dust at the center of the giant oyster, America. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-11-16 19:42 |
| #2 Further, it is hard to imagine that many of the Republican military who went to Iraq have seen reason to change whereas it is hard to believe most of the Democrat military have not considered it. The military, particularly the professional lifers, must be as one party oriented as ever they have been. It is just hard to believe that a national party would go so far to alienate the military it hopes to command in the future. But they've done it in spades. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-16 18:52 |
| #1 Iraqis associate cynicism, even anti-Arabism not with hard-nosed Republicans, but with liberal, supposedly idealistic Democratic liberals, whose serial trashing of them is constantly aired in Iraq; If the Iraqis are able to realize this, how is it that so much of the American public cannot see through the political farce that is the democratic party? a tragedy that cannot be averted given it was someday inevitable once they mortgaged the party to fringe extremism. Testimony to a rather stark contrast between the republican party's Christian moral bedrock as opposed to how the democrats' base of untethered liberal fanatics are almost totally without any anchor points. Nebulous liberal platforms like Political Correctness and Multiculturalism are but smokscreens for far more deadly agendas, much of them socialistic in nature. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-11-16 18:41 |