Posted by
NYMike on Friday, April 04, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Our military has once again been hamstrung by rules of engagement, influenced by the left with a lack of will to win on the part of the American people, and lost the public relations advantage long ago, out maneuvered in world public opinion by guys hiding in caves. It will take a cut-and-run strategy, another moderate Muslim country invaded or taken over by the Islamo-fascists, and another serious attack on our soil before we are able to muster the balls to carry things through against this enemy again. After the democrats take the presidency and we leave Iraq we will focus for awhile in Afghanistan so the Democratic president can show the world that we aren’t total pussies. Then in a few years the long arm of Islamo-fascism will reach to Africa and pour fuel on the flames already smoldering there. We are surely there already advising, I am sure, and doing more than advising.
History has not been the guide of this administration. I am no Bush apologist and truly not much of a supporter. He squandered good will after 9/11 and leveraged his steadfast determination to not be struck again on his watch into a mishmash of mistaken policy moves that negatively influenced how this war on terrorism should have been waged. Bush’s legacy, as to the war on terror, will be one of misguided though well-intentioned policies that gave short shrift to the military professionals. And much of these misguided intentions have their roots in his father’s administration. While the current President has failed on several conservative levels – growth of government and the spending that has created, caving on SCHIP, aloofness during Katrina that infected so much of the Republican cause, the list does go on. But on the war Bush has become a victim of history.
And history is a guide. If only Patton had been allowed to march onto Moscow, if only Johnson had heeded the lessons from the French in Indochina, if only Bush the first had continued beyond the phony mandate of the UN to liberate Kuwait and confronted Sadaam in then, when he was at his weakest, with the Arab world actually in support of our efforts to defend one Arab country against the transgressions of another, if only Clinton had pursued Bin Laden before 9/11 when he had actionable intelligence after Kobar and the first WTC bombing that this was a bad, bad man.
Only a fool believes that Bush the current has had any real hand in driving the dollar down, creating the sub-prime crisis (a direct result of the Community Reinvestment Act and the amendments made in 1995), and driving up oil prices. However, this same fool believes that Bill Clinton was responsible for the economic boom of the late 90s and also believes that Al Gore invented the internet.
The Democrat party will marshal its forces to create and enforce even greater income redistribution plans to placate their huddled masses. And all we mainstream conservatives can do is keep our heads down, keep excelling in the job we occupy at the moment, keep saving like hell and prepare for the inevitable bomb-shell that rocks one of our cities and the world markets.
The whole thing ruins my day when I really think about it. So lets begin with another great experiment with Hillary or Barack, fine – and 80 percent of what they try to do will wind up in the courts ala Roosevelt – the great unwashed, the populist outpouring of support for the nanny state will be the bane of the achievement class for a while – we just need to weather the storm and wait for another Reagan. Sure, my fingers are crossed. And to think back in college I thought Reagan was a real problem. But I know now I was influenced by my circumstances and a part of the great unwashed – but I wanted to get out of that hole and join the achievement class and worked hard to get there, sacrificed, took risks, made the right decisions and now that we are there – we are the enemy.
I will have to read Atlas Shrugged once again for some peace.