For Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Palin the Password is 'Lindbergh'

American Thinker ^ | September 5, 2013 | J. Robert Smith

[Fiji Hill]

Time for a musical interlude.

Like an Angel--Vaughn De Leath

Eagle of the USA--Vernon Dalhart

[freedom46and2]

There really is a reason why Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are blowing the GOP reigning establishment completely out of the water when it come to popularity with the American people. You seem to have figured it out, no problem. I just pray more of those on the political right can amass even a fraction of your wisdom and basic common sense.

[marron]

The writer fails to notice that Obama is arming the people who knocked over the Twin Towers.

[ViLaLuz]

“The pity is, our president is NOT an America Firster!”

He is an American fister.

[Travis McGee]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time."

[grumpygresh]

The real nut-job dictator lives in the WH.

[kevkrom]

For Rubin, it’s as if the (2nd) Iraq and Afghanistan wars never happened. We were/are there for 10 years, we lost thousands of soldiers, the people in the Middle East seem to hate us for it, people are still dying on a daily basis, and the future of both countries remains uncertain.

But at least - and agree with it or not - there was presented some kind of case that Iraq and Afghanistan mattered to the U.S. national interests, and that there was some definition of what victory was in both cases.

Syria, or even Libya? No such case has even been made, let alone debated.

[Me1onCollie]

For the last decade, “Isolationist” has been a term beaten out of all recognizable shape by every NeoCon dipwick with a GI Joe fantasy and no historical or cultural knowledge or even common sense. And that’s when it wasn’t being touted by people who were all but wearing a neon sign saying “I’m on the military industry’s payroll”.

It is completely impossible to continue our policy of endless invasions of Eastasia - ooops, I mean the Middle East - over a pinprick of an attack on 9/11 after decades of us blasting them with nigh-total immunity. We are broke. We are using our military for social fairness experiments. We do not have the spine to really fight a war.

Once again, WMD scaremongering is being used as a primary justification. And this time the ‘war’ will be ‘commanded’ by the stupidest excuse for a human being to ever inhabit the white house. For anyone to still call opponents of this disaster-in-making “isolationist” should instantly earn the response “how much are they paying you?”, said in the most derisive voice imaginable, and additional mockery if after sputtering and swearing said NeoCon reveals that they aren’t even being paid for their shilling.

[SUSSA]

SPOT ON!!!

[Steve_Seattle]

"But at least - and agree with it or not - there was presented some kind of case that Iraq and Afghanistan mattered to the U.S. national interests, and that there was some definition of what victory was in both cases."

I won't disagree with that. I always bristled when I heard people say that there was a "rush" to war In Iraq. It was actually planned and debated for months, both in government and in the media. It was one of the few wars in the last 40 years that we DIDN'T rush in to.

I was actually a bit more optimistic about success in Iraq than in Afghanistan. We were told - not by Bush, but by the Middle East experts - that Iraq was relatively secular, educated, and modern, so it seemed plausible that removing Saddam Hussein might actually work. Few people expected the ensuing 10-year, religious based insurgency.

In Afghanistan, however, we had a sprawling, backward society that the Russians wasted a whole decade trying to control. We should have just blown up the al-Qaeda camps, arrested the Taliban ringleaders, and gone home.