Wednesday, March 01, 2006

The barely disguised glee, and the glaring stupidity

Over at Sondrak, at the bottom left, she also maintians a short list of left sided blogs, such as Sadly NO, and Amanda...so I trolled around reading comments in a short effort to escape from the undocumented vicissitudes of MS SQL server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 (which are good but new, and real men don't need manuals).

I suppose there should be no surprise, but there was a barely suppressed celebration over the (already accepted) civil war in Iraq as a repudiation of the right, over Buckley's seeming collapse, and over what they see as a pre-defeat preaparation to blame the likes of them for the 'defeat' (and they really seem to have it in for !No Pasaran).

They are celebrating over the new Zogby Poll of US troops (where are the details - $19.95 - and who commissioned it?), and over the CBS Poll of 34% approval (cracked open by Newsbusters over imbalance in their sample).
UPDATE ON ZOGBY POLL HERE
Is there a word there about freedom of speech? About civil intimidation? Is there any awareness of anything other than the domestic side of the foreign issues?
I actually took the trouble to search the pages.
No. Not one word.
Not one word.

To them Iraq is a domestic issue disconnected from anything else in the world. It's function is to whack Bush and what they perceive as the 'right'. Foreign opinion of the USA being positive is a valid foreign policy goal. Freedom of Speech and its significance is not worth a mention.
Oh and people to whom that's important....wingnut..and 'the worst'
I feel like Hank Reardon. It's disappointing, but they are not motive forces in the real world.

3 comments:

John Sobieski said...

I'm telling you they are feeding the crocodile hoping to be eaten last, or better yet, snare that crocodile and make it a tamed pet. They couldn't be more wrong. It is they who will be 'tamed' or eaten.

Look Iraq is a mess, it didn't work. I blame Islam, it is so destructive, it truly is a seepage from the Arab brain (Andre Servier, 1913, Islam and the Psychology of the Musulman). I am not cheering. I think Bush had bad advisors on Islam, plain and simple. David Forte, John Esposito, Grove Norquist, shockingly clueless or worse, bought by Arab business and sheiks. et tu Karl Rove? or just clueless? Isn't Karl Rove his goto man who 'filters' all the noise to get to the real issues? a real understanding of Islam and its threat to civilization? And then you have Condi. She has never read the Koran, and wouldn't be able to tell you what a ahadith is, or what does jizyah mean. It's sad really. Too bad our future is hinged on her. Thank God for Bolton. Now he would make a great Sec. of State, but the democrats would never allow it and there are enough RINOs to block it.

Epaminondas said...

This is going to sound cold and cynical..in this world war (and it is) I have wondered from the beginning if 3 states weren't better for the USA nomatter the cost in Iraq.

Irag is not and has never been something like France where Gallic and Germanic tribes coalesced. It's been fought over, settled over and in, and gone back and forth over by assyrians, hittites, persians, arabs, mongols, arabs, ottomans, persians, ottomans and arabs then ottomans again and finally the brits who drew the current lines.

If it should turn out that left to their own devices, AT THIS TIME, the ancient religious enmities are too great and a lot of people are killed, then let them separate.

This should actually make John Murtha one happy dude, since the ONLY place withdrwaing american forces would we welcome is KURDISTAN. We have helped them since 1992-3 and protected them from Saddam. We could help secure their new borders, leave a small reaction force and air force bases behind (leaving us free for you know who) and BINGO non israeli self supporting (oil and plenty of it) democratic ally in the middle east. To hell with the sunnis, who would then be in a resourceless enclave they could haul back to the 9th century. Think maybe people would try to get out? The Shia south (also with oil) would go its own way. Iranian influence would be the same contentious issue it is right now, but that would stand or fall on what happens with Iran. I have a feeling that an isloated, poor, sunni triangle would be dealt with rather ruthlessly by its neighbors.

I'd rather succeed at what we are doing, but if the Iraqis can't live freely together, then a Yugoslavian breakup might work out just fine.

Except for Sunnis who would rule the sand

Always On Watch said...

I agree with John Sobieski!