Hawkish Gloom

NRO ^ | August 08, 2006, 5:31 a.m. | Stanley Kurtz

[isaiah55version11_0]

Yikes....

Where is the good ol Reagan optimism when you need it?

[dfwgator]

"The horror....the horror!"

[MikeA]

Good gosh, buck up man. The nation has faced and overcome tougher times and adversaries than these and prevailed.

[pissant]

Good grief. Doom and gloom. He must spend too much time reading the NY Times.

[My2Cents]

Yet our domestic divisions, and our inability to pacify Iraq have largely (although not, I believe, entirely) canceled out the deterrent message of the invasion.

A very blunt and honest analysis. It seems correct to conclude that the momentum and resolve of the US in the war on terror has waned since we toppled Saddam. Truth be told, I think Bush has gone limp on the entire effort.

[Mariner]

While an optimist, Reagan was also a realist.

He knoew the only way to defeat International Communism was through power. However, THAT foe was relatively reasonable and held a worldview of generally peaceful coexistence. Mostly the Russians just wanted what we all want, peace and freedom to enjoy life and family.

Our new enemy wants nothing less than our subservience or our death.

[dfwgator]

Gloom, despair and agony on me
Deep, dark depression
Excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck
I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair and agony on me

[NYCynic]

Couple of months back, a poll was released showing that republicans were more likely to be afraid of terrorism and I thought that was utter nonsense. Now, if Kerry had won in 2004, then you better believe I'd be afraid, but with the right(no pun, I swear) guys in office I believe there is nothing to fear. Looks like the pollsters must have gotten hold of a couple of sissies like this guy.

[pissant]

I think I'm gonna kill myself
Try a little suicide
Stick around for a couple of days
What a tragedy if I died

[Lazamataz]

We're all gonna die!!!!

[dfwgator]

That sounds like every song Morrissey ever sang.

[MNJohnnie]

More hysteric whining and hand wringing for the Know Nothings. Would be nice if they are going to waste our time they at LEAST have a grasp of reality.

Counter Terrorism is NOT Conventional Military Operations. To try and force the 1st into the form of the 2nd is idiotic. "Gloomy Hawk" Panic stricken Chicken Sh%^ would be more accurate

[Tancred]

Yikes indeed. How about this quote from NRO's The Corner by everyone's favorite Squidward, I mean pessimist, John Derbyshire (posted 8/9/06):

Stanley Kurtz ROCKS. If you didn't read his "Hawkish Gloom" piece on yesterday's NRO (from which all the above quotes are taken), go read it now. Then, read it again. Read the links too.

Stanley's notion of the Israelization of the West — the slow change of opinion here from deep dove-hawk, lib-con differences to a glum, grim, pessimistic consensus, is spot on.

I only wonder — as of course I would — if Stanley is gloomy enough. There is a nightmare here, lurking just out of sight behind all the thoughts and articles of the gloomy-cons. The nightmare is so appalling to any civilized person I cannot bring myself to mention it. I'll just call it the g-word. Us or them. Please may it not come to that. I need a cup of coffee.

It's coming up on five years since 9/11: Iran, Syria, and North Korea are still out there. Lots of people want to see the U.S. fail. It could be a long, hard war for years to come.

[Gunslingr3]

Where is the good ol Reagan optimism when you need it?

Reagan 'optimism' decided to get out of Lebanon.

The best thing to be said about Lebanon since is that it hasn't been our troops in the middle of that mess, let's keep it that way.

[MNJohnnie]

A very absurd hysteric analysis by a panic striken chicken know nothing.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"As such, it is unlikely to be bombed out of existence."

Wrong.

One simply has to bomb until one has killed a massive portion of the Lebanese people. They are very hard headed, but if they are dead, they will no longer be a problem for us or Israel. If our positions were reversed, they would kill all of us in a heartbeat, therefore, we need to be at least as ruthless as they are to defeat them.

[MNJohnnie]

Nice you have feelings. Such a pity that feelings are not facts.

Did any of the Always Whining EVEN for a second even bother to consider that MOST of the people fighting and dying ON OUR SIDE in the War are Muslims? These hysteric Patton wannabees would make all those current allies enemies. That would be an utterly stupid self defeating strategy

[mel]

When you hear their words that they will not give up the right until the world turns to Islam, you know it is not going to be easy.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"The West is on a collision course with Iran."

The West, or at least the non-decadent part of it, the USA, is on a collision course with militant Islam. If we do not wipe them out, they will enslave us.

[isaiah55version11_0]

Did any of the Always Whining EVEN for a second even bother to consider that MOST of the people fighting and dying ON OUR SIDE in the War are Muslims?

Yes, but are we killing them faster than they can replace themselves. How many children do you have or are planning to have?