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2005-01-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2005-01-04 11:23:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Reminds me of a Jim Carey scene where he says, "they like me, they really like me."

Just do the right thing, don't spent time about what others think.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-04 12:05:30 PM|| 2005-01-04 12:05:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 i dont think Powell was saying we shouldnt do the right thing. Its the right thing, the American way, AND it helps us. What TGA was saying here the other day.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-01-04 12:07:48 PM|| 2005-01-04 12:07:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 NOW do you see political trap that is set with that focus? Tell me, what will the MSM be doing with this statement in the near future?

Posted by Jules 187 2005-01-04 12:12:51 PM|| 2005-01-04 12:12:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Poor Colin. He was just taking his valedictory lap of the embassies, waiting for Condi's confirmation, and he gets stuck on tsunami duty.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-04 12:19:19 PM|| 2005-01-04 12:19:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Cap: Carey was lampooning Sally Field winning her Oscar.

Posted by mojo 2005-01-04 12:24:17 PM|| 2005-01-04 12:24:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Doing the right thing, sans ballyhoo, is what we've been doing for several decades. Without being a moron and speculating aloud in the press - your sworn enemy, as the Master Diplomat has done here, a few dozen well-funded documentaries by native filmmakers from these countries might be a good start toward giving them a more accurate picture of the US - and relatively cheap to do, as well.

Posted by .Abu Mbaku channeling John Cleese 2005-01-04 3:43:18 PM|| 2005-01-04 3:43:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Absolutely, I will be glad to throw a BBQ and do Potlatch for them next Christmas.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-04 3:51:25 PM|| 2005-01-04 3:51:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Not really, the US's help will only get them on their collective feet earlier to hate us again later! The Tamil rebels will be defying and fighting the government within one year of restoration! History will show we should have let the Arab world deal with the aid, while we gird our forces for the coming showdown with Iran and North Korea! We will have to tuck tail and pull out sooner than we would like!

Posted by smn 2005-01-04 5:31:02 PM|| 2005-01-04 5:31:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Memories are short - interests are permanent. They'll give credit to Uncle Sam the way they thanked us for Bosnia and Kosovo. I don't expect any PR value from this - the specific recipients of aid may be thankful, but that's about it.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-01-04 6:05:23 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-01-04 6:05:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "We will have to tuck tail and pull out sooner than we would like!"

"tuck tail"??? WTF? What planet do you live on, smn? Just wondering, your conclusions are always so, uh, ~~comic~~ cosmic.

Posted by .com 2005-01-04 6:09:51 PM|| 2005-01-04 6:09:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 .Com,
If you think the US is going to leave a carrier group hauling bananas and baby diapers poised idle in the Bay Of Bengal after either North Korea or Iran detonates their first 'Trinity Test' you're more wishful than I thought! Pray the restoration concludes before those events occur!

Posted by smn 2005-01-04 8:51:25 PM|| 2005-01-04 8:51:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I would suggest that the majority of US Mil resources will be gone once the roads are reopened and others get their shit together to provide, sea, air, and land transport. The majority of the distribution effort will change over to locals, too.

Bet on it.

The problem here was time, capability, and gumption.

The pretenders wank-off for the press, posturing, preening, and jockeying for credit.

The doers, US & Aussie Militaries who were the closest with the mostest and the balls to do the job without a bank of microphones, just demonstrated who walks and who talks. (P.S. Thanx Oz - you guys rock!)

Now, if that obvious sequence isn't something you anticipated happening within a time window of approx 4-6 months, likely on the low side of that, well, my sympathies.

Posted by .com 2005-01-04 9:34:48 PM|| 2005-01-04 9:34:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 They'll give credit to Uncle Sam the way they thanked us for Bosnia and Kosovo.

I fervently hope not. Our recompense for saving tens of thousands of muslim lives in the Balkans in early 1999 was the 9/11 slaughter, planned immediately after the Kosovo compaign.

Posted by lex 2005-01-04 9:48:25 PM|| 2005-01-04 9:48:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 .com,
4 to 6 months sounds reasonable to me also! Now, I hope the rest of "The Axis" will wait, before they try to ruffle our feathers. The Iranians may have heart, but the deck is still out on the Norks!

Posted by smn 2005-01-04 10:03:11 PM|| 2005-01-04 10:03:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Mojo:

Powell does Sally Field's acceptance speech.

We do the RIGHT thing whether they liks us more (or less) or not. How they respond is a distant byproduct.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-04 10:42:48 PM|| 2005-01-04 10:42:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Happened to catch CBS evening news tonight where they asked why Americans are giving so much money for tsunami victims. After giving some lip service to a couple of reasons like 'well, it is the time of year when people are thinking of giving to charity anyway,' they revealed the big secret. Americans are really just trying to buy off the muslims. CBS has figured out Americans' secret plan! We only made all those donations so muslims will like us.

Posted by SC88 2005-01-04 10:44:03 PM|| 2005-01-04 10:44:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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