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2008-12-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

George W Bush: Winning The War On Terror

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Posted by lftbhndagn 2008-12-27 14:20|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Not bad, but it's stunning how even an essentially positive analysis nonetheless integrates key myths and poor frameworks.

I assume everyone here can pick these out, but consider for a moment how in effect delusional the everyday discussion of US foreign policy has become.

Iraq a monumental disaster? Huh? By what measure? What were the alternatives that might have delivered such a strategic victory (regime removal - the blundering defeat of AQ there subsequently is very rich gravy, but still gravy)?

Gitmo is "notorious"? No, the distortions in "reporting" about it have been notorious. The gutting of the Geneva Conventions by the ICRC (their purported guardian) and "human rights" groups and orwellian SCOTUS justices, in their pretense that up is down and that suddenly, after 1977, the Conventions magically became adequate for all future developments, unlike the previous decades of their existence - that's quite notorious.

"Tens of millions" of Muslims have been radicalized because the US removed two of the most loathsome oppressors of Muslims, not to mention homo sapiens in general, on Earth? Uh, OK. The US wasn't a "pariah" to the uninformed and psychologically dysfunctional majorities in the MidEast before 2001? Oh - I guess I imagined all those decades of lunatic hatred, terrorism, and self-degradation by those failed polities.

So, no, I'm not going to be satisfied to see sensible general conclusions - it's kinda important to get the basic facts and the premises and the framework right, too.

Posted by Verlaine 2008-12-27 21:12|| 2008-12-27 21:12|| Front Page Top

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