Backing Dean guarantees a Bush victory (must read)

The Daily Northwestern ^ | 1/6/04 | Nadir Hassan

[Valin]

I want Howard Dean to be the Democratic nominee for President despite the fact that his intellect is the size of a single in the Foster-Walker Complex.

If he gets the nomination, George W. Bush is going to launch a major can of whoop-ass, the likes of which have never been seen before in any election. It will make the 99 percent landslide "victories" of dictators around the world look like closely fought contests.

Many ask why I have a dog in this fight. After all I'm a Pakistani with no interest in the debates over Medicare and school vouchers. I'd rather go to class than read about campaign finance reform.

To put it simply, American politics bore me.

I do, however, care deeply about my country. At the risk of sounding like a peace activist -- which I most certainly am not, at least not in the NOWAR tradition -- I also care about the freedom and well-being of the global community. And right now, Dubya is the only person capable of doing that.

Ideally, Muslims wouldn't need Bush to do their dirty work for them. They would repudiate all forms of terrorism, reform their own dirty political systems and realize that women should be treated as human beings, not cattle. But since they're not up to the task Bush is the next best alternative.

In the last 28 months he has managed to bomb Afghanistan into modernity and rid them of the Taliban, who subscribed to the "women-as-cattle" philosophy mentioned above. He has also managed to free the Iraqis from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, who came up with the novel idea of mass murder as a solution to overpopulation. He got the spineless President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan to develop a backbone and renounce his previous support for terrorism.

Howard Dean, showing himself to be the moral vacuum he undoubtedly is, said "I suppose it's a good thing" upon hearing of Saddam's forced removal. This is why he does not have a chance in hell against Bush. The American people must realize the importance of freedom and not give Dean the chance to fiddle while the Muslim world burns.

I feel like puking with disgust whenever I see a "no war" sign painted on The Rock. Liberals need to realize it is only at gunpoint that extremist Muslims will learn that anti-Semitism is not a lifestyle choice, and suicide bombings will not result in a Palestinian state. You control mass murderers with war, not resolutions and court orders.

When I visited my ancestral homeland of Afghanistan last year, I felt safe in the knowledge that I would not be incarcerated for being a beardless, non-praying, T-shirt-and-jean-wearing individual. That freedom was exhilarating. It was a freedom no one in the country enjoyed until Bush came dashing in like the Texas sheriff he is so often portrayed as being.

Which is why I urge College Republicans -- all five of them -- to rally behind Dean during the primary season.

And then come November and Bush's landslide victory, I will feel safer and freer.

Nadir Hassan is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at n-hassan@northwestern.edu.

[JohnGalt]

Check which post I was replying to...and if I need to explain the rhetorical use of teenage girls as it relates to the policies that the author claims to support, I would be happy to.

[JohnGalt]

Typically, on this forum, we call such socialist indifference expressed by the author as RINOism.

I am not trying to get anywhere with the True Believers of the Great Global Democratic Revolution; the Old Right types on this site find true humor in poking fun at the phonycons in an age of decline.

[furball4paws]

Senor Galt has been complaining a lot. Perhaps he needs some sleep. I will accept the author (Afghan-Pakistani) as someone who at least is looking in the right direction unlike most people and I will not complain about people living up to their FreepNames. Well, maybe I will - Mr. Galt does not, as no living person could, but he could at least try harder. There is no spirit of Objectivism in his posts.

I guess this is a bitch thread, sigh. OK BITCH, BITCH, BITCH.

[MacDorcha]

allow me to sum up his policies and then we can make sure you are reading the thread i am. he is bored by politics in the US. he feels Bush is the only person right now who can finish what has started, and he feels Bush is justified in his cause. he feels (only reference to the fairer sex in the article) that the Taliban adopted a way of living that treated "women as cattle" that being the only point that says anything about females, and nothing has been said about the actual fighters IN Afghanistan and Iraq, i'm assuming that that is the closest you will come to speaking of teenaged girls fighting for someone. he gets upset by peacniks who dont realize that war is being used for good right now. he also states that dean has no chance, and that his blood is from the region in Afghanistan, while his card is from Pakistan, and im assuming he now lives in the US.

in short, your comment yet again, doesn't relate to the topic at hand.

[MacDorcha]

and dude, drop the "if you disagree with me, you arent a conservative" bit. he expressed no indifference at all except in saying that it bores him. he likes Bush. he knows Bush is a good guy. it doesnt matter what his creed is, he knows who is on the right side.

he serves up an unbiased testament to our good side.

or is that what scares you? does it frighten you to think that someone else besides us might be talking about us? do you hold that he is our enemy simply because he would rather live his life than jabber all day about politics in a government that he is simply relying on to keep him safe from extremism in his old country? its people like you that lose us to the ignorant masses everyday. the elitism reaking from you drives away people who might otherwise listen to what we have to say.

[MacDorcha]

im off subject? the whole purpose of me EVER posting to you is that you were off the subject! you took a pot-shot at a guy, and you were wrong in the statement as well as the relevance. get over yourself for God's sake!

[JohnGalt]

Teenage girls-- a reference to Jessica Lynch and her like who actually have to carry out these policies while said author types away at his liberal elite university, safely tucked away in Evanston, IL.

The author states that domestic politics bore him so he looks only at extern foreign policy, basically conceding he is a Rockefeller Republican, typically referred to as a RINO in these parts.

As a satirist, this material is too rich not to make fun of those with low self-esteem who do jumping jacks at that sight of any praise. It's simply too funny.

Of course, in 2004 the opinion is completely valid in the political spectrum but only the humorless cannot see what is so absurdly funny about the folks who are all too happy to heap praise on a multinational at a liberal elite university who clearly states that he does not care about socialism at home because it bores him-- how wonderfully funny?

Secondly, the poster of the article Valin, believes the CFR bill is a travesty of justice, and yet this poster is one of the lead cheerleaders for this author--even as the author claims CFR bores him.

This is simply too much material for me to resist.

The real problem it presents on a political forum is that so many on this forum have done the same thing; they ignore the loss of freedom at home, the huge debt financing, and expansion of the welfare state, in exchange for their support of protecting the all important lands of Pakistan/Afghanistan. This is the heart of what the Old Right calls the Welfare-Warfare State and the nature of its politics.

Rather than hammer away from a humorless position, I come at it from a different angle which you are more then welcome to deride.

[MacDorcha]

well im a teenage male, and im not over there. and yet, im thankful for my freedom to type away in my university system as well. and as i recall, our beloved jessica lynch has had some controversy about her, and women still arent supposed to be in combat anyway. i understand who she is, i understand to some degree that you assumed the author said anything at all about her... but he still didnt.

and as a humorist, i would hope that when one makes a joke, it makes sense. even if its alice in wonderland sense. people laugh at things that dont take such a backdoor approach to everything. like actually talking about the information provided.

so the guy, who moved from a nation where he could have died because of politics moevd here and finds politics (he didnt say socialism) boring here. what is your point?

[JohnGalt]

If you believe your freedom is protected because of some hacks in the DC tax regime, I can only assume that you have a lot of unlearning to do thanks to compulsary gumbint education camps---am I right?

[MacDorcha]

well seeing as my folks didnt have enough money to send me to a privet school, yes i did go to a public one, but i assure you, anything i learned there, i questioned AND i researched. i dont believe my freedoms come from our government, i believe our freedoms are kept because of our military. i do, however understand who is in control of the money that funds our wonderful muilitary, and that without our government, we would be no better than the tribes in Africa because of our disputes and fighting.

just as we need freedom, we need organization. if their was a coup tonight, and we were thrown into anarchy, we would look for leaders. i didnt learn how to think in school, i only learned what others thought. thinking is inevitable, so it must be constant. my thoughts and characteristics were founded on my very first thoughts, and my personality (note, "personal" fits in there nicley) are mine. i am a free thinker, but i know things as well as think.

for the last time now. quit with your freaking cliche riddled drivel. you aren't nearly as above us as you would like to think.

i hate liberals, but with the bs you spew, i can sympathize with them on one issue.

[JohnGalt]

"i hate liberals"?

LOL, so much material so little time, "free thinker."

[MacDorcha]

you keep speaking as if the only thing you do in life is make satire. i hope you recall that satire is considered an exageration of the truth. im sure if you read into that you'll get where im going.

[MacDorcha]

and fine, if you would like me to refine my statement.

got all the time in the world. why dont ewe enlighten me?

[JohnGalt]

Satire and drink, watch football, and lay around with wifie.

[JohnGalt]

If you hate liberals, you cannot be a patriot.

A patriot loves his country, warts and all. If you hate I very large portion of natural born citizens, you cannot simultaneously be, by definition, be a patriot-- though you may still be a right-winger. If you wish to say something bold, like declaring that you do not love the land of your patria, I would be impressed, but I doubt you mean what you say.

Certainly I am sure you hold some ideas that are generally considered liberal as in descended from the thinkers that brought us Robespierre.

[MacDorcha]

ah, a UGA student. ;)

[MacDorcha]

i love the freedoms our country gives us. i love that we are allowed to be idiots. i still, however, do not like idiots. you are right in that i didnt complete my thought though. i dont like liberals. by liberals i mean those that vote democrat either "simply because" or those that match the likes of PETA and follow socialism and communism. the stereotypical liberal is bad for our country, which i do love, which is why i hate liberals.

[MacDorcha]

"If you hate liberals, you cannot be a patriot. "

and oddly enough, liberals who are against us protecting ourselves keep demanding that they are patriots. by that deffinition, i'd prefer to be a traitor. obviously though i am not following that deffinition, simply countering your point.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

If you hate liberals, you cannot be a patriot.

Rather a poorly thought out position, for one attempting to advance the claim (however boneheadedly) that all Republicans other than himself are, de facto, "RINOs."

Incidentally: Ronald Wilson Reagan was also what you term (sloppily) as an "interventionist." Boy... that stinkin' RINO b@stard, huh...?

[JohnGalt]

Reagan was a conservative of the order that he grew up with, the welfare state as laid out during the FDR administration. Reagan also mastered the talk loudly, walk softly dance by fighting minor wars on the fringes of the Communist Empire, but never sought direct confrontation, and indeed, continued to sell subsidize grain to the USSR through out his term.

When Reagan came into office 3/4 of the globe was directed by Moscow, and when he left, with barely a shot fired considering the size of the two states, he had defeated the Evil Empire using the technique of containment-- or what the present Wilsonians or really just LBJ types, call appeasement.