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It
\n kills us the way the pundits prognosticate the political future by rehashing
\n the past. "Never before…" "Every
\n election since 1865…" "At this point in previous campaigns…" Give
\n it up! The sample is simply too skimpy to make categorical predictions.<\/p>\n
Just when it seemed Kerry was irredeemably mired in his
\n own pretentiousness, real life is conspiring to breath new life into
\n his moribund movement. Turns out he was right to be centering his campaign
\n on the war. He just happened to have the wrong war. Nevertheless, Kerry
\n is doing his best to fumble the ball, and the clock is ticking down in
\n the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The news from Iraq today was a depressing bit of Vietnam
\n deja vu. A milestone was reached; 1,000 American men and women
\n killed since we invaded. We truly believe a majority of Americans, although
\n they will always support our armed forces when they are sent on a concrete
\n campaign or mission to defend our interests, will NOT, in this day and
\n age, support an indefinite status quo in which our guys and girls are
\n being shot at and killed day in and day out, with no end in sight.<\/p>\n
We have opened a Pandora’s box of wicked ills in the Middle
\n East, and we are discovering a whole world of pain, which is destined
\n to affect our society as deeply as Vietnam did a generation ago. Suddenly,
\n we are not in control of the situation on the ground. US forces have
\n withdrawn from city after city across the center of Iraq. Faluja, Karbala,
\n Ramadi, Najaf and large sections of Baghdad are in the hands of militants
\n whose entire existence is based on a desire to kill Americans and drive
\n us from their lands. <\/p>\n
Worse, we have lost the support of the people we have come
\n to liberate. The scale of our destruction has been so awesome and
\n indiscriminate that the rank and file, the teachers and bakers and washer-women,
\n the millions of peace-loving people of Iraq, see us as an evil army of
\n death and are increasingly willing to feed and hide the insurgents. As
\n anyone who has tried to help an alcoholic or drug addict who hasn’t
\n hit bottom knows, saving someone who doesn’t want to be saved
\n is an impossible quagmire.<\/p>\n
The military says that they have a plan. if the Incipient
\n Iraqi security forces can’t maintain control in these cities, US forces are ready
\n to retake them, one at a time. How a series of bloody urban battles,
\n mosque-to-mosque combat, with heavy casualties on both sides and even
\n more so among the doomed civilians, will play in the midst of a Presidential
\n campaign will be interesting to see.<\/p>\n
More interesting, we hope, than the insipid display of NO, NO, NO, John. That is the Bush lie. They have The Real War on Terror is tracking down Osama, rooting out the This is the message. Is it too late for the messenger to article from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It kills us the way the pundits prognosticate the political future by rehashing the past. "Never before…" "Every election since 1865…" "At this point in previous campaigns…" Give it up! The sample is simply too skimpy to make categorical predictions. … Continue reading
\n ham-handedness we just saw on the nightly news. John Kerry, asked
\n to comment on today’s milestone in Iraq – a political softball to his
\n wheelhouse, just begging to be swatted over the wall<\/a> –
\n answered, in his gaunt, sonorous and sepulchral tomes, "Over 1000 of
\n America’s sons and daughters have now given their lives to the war on
\n terror."<\/p>\n
\n given their lives to an obscure, oil-drenched Texas family feud, to a
\n personal vendetta that has nothing to do with the real security of the
\n United States and in fact is making us less secure by breeding a million
\n widows and orphans who blame us for their misfortunes and will spend
\n the rest of their lives trying to get back at us.<\/p>\n
\n entrenched hate-mongers in our "allies", Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, stopping
\n the massacres in Africa, finding the Anthrax killer, and getting real
\n about protecting our borders, airports and container ports.<\/p>\n
\n figure it out?<\/p>\n