Posted on 04/06/2015 2:19:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Cruz, Walker, Kirk and—especially—Bolton are furious at the world. Their solution: Declare war on it.
At the end of a week when many paused to reflect during Passover and Easter ceremonies, a question with no real answer seemed to crash into our culture with all the subtlety of a marching band in a funeral parlor: Why do so many Republicans seem so angry all the time at so much around us?
The fury of some like Ted Cruz is understandable. It’s fueled by his massive ego and outsized ambition along with his personal belief that he is so smart and the rest of us are so pedestrian that he can manipulate opinion to win the Republican nomination for president with the support of the mentally ill wing of his party.
“A real president,” Cruz the bombardier said last week, “would stand up and say on the world stage: Under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran will either stop or we will stop them.”
Then there is the minor league Cruz, the tough talking, totally in-over-his-head governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who is running to crack down on the salaries of teachers, cops and firefighters everywhere. Oh, he’ll also teach Iran a good lesson by throwing any deal out the window no matter what other countries might think. Imagine Scotty informing Angela Merkel of his decision while he wears his Cheese-Head Hat.
There are so many others too. There’s the kid who started the pen pal club with the ayatollah, Tom Cotton. There’s the mental midget from Illinois, Mark Kirk, who went right to the basement for his best thought on Iran, claiming that England got a better deal from Hitler than the U.S. got from Teheran. Kirk, not a history major.
But my personal favorite? In this corner, from Baltimore, wearing the costume of a true warrior, locked and loaded and ready to roll, the former Ambassador to the United Nations, John “Bombs Away” Bolton. He took to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times to declare war on Iran. After all, why waste time!
“The inconvenient truth is that only military action…” Field Marshall Bolton wrote, “can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed.”
Bolton, of course, is one of the Mensa members who told George W. Bush that it would be swell to go to war in Iraq. Twelve years later things are really going well there.
At least Bolton knows war on a first hand basis. At age 18 he was in South Vietnam where….OH, I’M SORRY…MY MISTAKE…that was another Bolton. That was Dennis Bolton from Bedford, Ind., born two weeks before John Bolton was born in Baltimore in November 1968. Two different young men with two different tales to tell.
Dennis Bolton went to Vietnam. John Bolton who went to Yale. Dennis Bolton was killed near DaNang on April 19, 1967 where he served with the Marines while John Bolton finished his freshman year at New Haven.
In 1967, Bedford had a population of about 13,000. It’s a nice small town where Gene Hackman could have filmed ‘Hoosiers’, one of the great sports films ever. Ten young men from Bedford were killed in Vietnam.
Indiana, of course, is the state where Mike Pence and Republicans in the state legislature spent the week clowning it up over their lost fight to make it harder for some Americans simply to be happy. Make no mistake about it, their war was against same sex marriage and they suffered a TKO when the country turned against them in the snap of a finger, an overnight knock-out delivered with stunning speed. But I digress.
In 1967, Baltimore had a population of about 930,000. It’s a tough town with a lot of different neighborhoods, some dangerous, many working class where Barry Levinson hadn’t made “Diner” yet and HBO hadn’t given us the gift that is “The Wire.” Four hundred and seventeen residents of Baltimore were killed in Vietnam.
Dennis Bolton’s name is on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. John Bolton’s name was on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times as well as on the lips of some angry, fevered lunatics whose principal policy option is to fight rather than talk.
Obviously, Bolton never made it to Vietnam. He joined the Maryland National Guard to avoid going to Vietnam and, hey, good for him. At least he served.
Of course, he blamed his absence from combat on the politics of the time. On liberals like Ted Kennedy and others, claiming they had already lost the war by the time he was ready to take on the North Vietnamese Army. I guess that explains the itch, the unfulfilled need, the frustration that guys like Bolton have lived with across the decades.
And today, "Bombs Away" Bolton still has a strong desire to light it up. And according to some pundits he's even considering a run for president. Obviously his platform will remain as unchanged as his thinking: Different time, different dangers, different countries but same selfish solution: Send someone else’s kids to fight and die while Bolton and others play with a lit fuse in a world more dangerous than dynamite.
1. “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
10. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
11. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
12. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions
Crotch Barnicle isn’t worth spending two seconds on. Moronic, hateful drivel.
This drivel is all the Left has because, “the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.”
They cannot argue or debate facts when they’re working to deconstruct the United States.
People like me don’t hate everything, but we surely hate a lying PoS like Mike Barnacle.
I am angry -- and I make no apologies about it.
Barnicle channels John Kerry/BarackObama.
Did Mikey PLAGARIZE THIS also??
The left is sore afraid of Ted Cruz.
Mike Barnicle is one.
The leftists brain does not make synaptic connections between Iranian exportation of terror and gaining nuclear weapons. He thinks that Cruz and Walker are war mongers? He should try on an Iranian Mullah with a nuclear cap in his back pocket.
Barnicle is not so much a has-been as he is a never-was.
Mike Barnacle.
Why do so many Republicans seem so angry all the time at so much around us?
Seriously? Are you just a liar or just that ignorant. Do you think it was republicans rioting in the streets in ferguson all those weeks? Do you think it is republicans going nuts of a law to protect religious freedom and threatening everything from economic destruction to death. Dude you need to buy a clue. The left is constantly angry. Constantly bitching and or whining about one thing or the other.
one of the Mensa members who told George W. Bush that it would be swell to go to war in Iraq. Twelve years later things are really going well there
Well actually things were going pretty weel there under George Bush. Then along came Obama. Like everything else that he touches goes to hell so did Iraq..
but when GWB was predident the lunatic left used to ride around with bumper sticker which read “IF YOU’RE NOT OUTRAGED YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION!”
liberalism thy name is hypocrisy...
I guess Barnicle never visits leftist internet forums. If he did, he’d read an ocean-sized amount of hateful comments directed at conservatives by their lib/leftist fellow countrymen.
I didn't know I was mentally ill, but I confess I support Ted Cruz.
Isn't mike barnicle the boston reporter that got fired because he was STEALING articles from others and claiming them as his own.
Why would I care what a proven thief, cheat and liar writes, when it may not even be his own work?
Barnacle is such a jerk that even über liberal colleagues at the Boston Globe cheered the announcement in 1998 of his firing for plagiarism and lying...
If it wasn’t for hate and anger Marxists wouldn’t have anything to offer.
Pray America is waking
Lol...angry?!? Anyone who listens to Ted Cruz hears a reasonable, calm explanation of his views blended into some of the most inspiring expressions of love for country that we’ve heard since the great president Reagan.
And this scares them badly...not a clean pair of underwear in the lot.
Does anyone remember Rush Limbaugh’s Ken Starr vs James Carville debate skits from the late 1990s?
Same sort of projection that Limbaugh satirized is happening here.
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