Bush counts on the war without end

Toronto Star ^ | Feb. 5, 2002 | Thomas Walkom

[SunStar]

Yawn...

[Cyber Liberty]

Geesh. Idiot can't tell the difference between Orwell fiction and real airplanes crashing into real buildings.

[Publius6961]

The Toronto Star?
What is with these Canucks, anyway?
Don't they have any domestic weirdness that they can deal with?

[Pay now bill Clinton]

bump

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Couldn't keep the facts straight, eh?

[clintonh8r]

Gimme a Molson, eh, hoser?

[Samwise]

THE WAR against terrorism is a brilliant construct. It may not have been started by George W. Bush, but it certainly works to his advantage.

I couldn't read beyond this line. Dubya would do anything to change the events of 9/11. Clinton is the one wishing it had happened on his watch. Dubya wishes it had never happened at all--as do all decent human beings.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Canada - the retarded giant sleeping on our doorstep.

[Shermy]

"In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the enemy of the state is personified in Emmanuel Goldstein. Goldstein is the Osama bin Laden figure of the novel, an elusive figure who is never seen, never captured but believed by all patriotic citizens of Oceania (Orwell's fictitious state, an amalgamation of North America and Europe) to be an evil genius bent on their destruction."

The lefty mind at work. Osama and his operatives, and his organizational members pledge to destroy the West, especially America. What's so secret about that? It's not, but lefties can't look. Gotta maintain that multicultural sensitivity.

[js1138]

The easiest and cheapest straw man is the false analogy. It is true that endless war is Orwellean, and it is true that war against terrorism appears to be endless.

The man behind the curtain here is marxism, the common thread that ties Orwell's 1984 to modern terrorism.

The capitalist vision also includes struggle without end, but certainly doesn't require violence. Except, of course, on the football field, where it belongs.

[Mr. Thorne]

Well, then, he's made a safe bet. The natural state of Man is War. Peace is an ideal inferred from the periodic breaks we have had between our wars.

[sinkspur]

Osama Goldstein?

No. Mullah tex-omar.

[dighton]

Dumb**** du jour.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"Dubya wishes it had never happened at all--as do all decent human beings."

Of course, but that doesn't stop the government from using the event for its own purposes. The American people, even conservatives on this forum, are willing to give the federal government a blank check to fight this war wherever it wishes, against whomever it wishes, and for as long as it wishes. That sounds like perpetual war to me.

As soon as this "War on Terrorism" was declared (in the loose, non-Constitutional sense, of course) I suspected we were in for another, bigger and better, dose of statism from the same nice folks who gave us the War on Poverty, and the War on Drugs.

I earnestly hope that Mr. Bush is re-elected because I dread to see what the Democrats will do, internationally, with this new License to Kill. Kosovo will pale in comparison. And the Bush / Ashcroft machinery of "homeland defense" should make for much merriment under the next Clinton-style administration. Yes, indeed. The fun is just beginning.

[OldFriend]

DNC talking points reaching all the way to Canada!

[jpl]

No mention of an oil pipeline conspiracy? How does this guy expect to graduate to the Village Voice or Newsweek?