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]

I agree, the Rightwing Marxists are anti-patriotic parasites to power.

[JohnGalt]

I'm 29; already hardened and cynical to the claims of the snake-oil salesman that run the DC-tax regime.

Some believe that our safety lies in wars 10,000 miles away; I believe our safety begins with a well-armed citizenry and a decentralized government.

Do you really think the poor folks on the planes that struck WTC and the Pentagon would have just sat there hoping it was 'just a hijacking' if anyone of them had been armed? Or what if the populace was made aware that for the 10 years prior, the central intelligence apparatus knew that 'radical Islam' was planning to use commercial passenger planes as missiles? Me personally, I believe they would have behaved as heroically as Todd Beamer or like the passengers who subdued the Shoebomber-- regardless if they were liberals or conservative.

That is simply what American's do; it is part of who we are.

And while its bad enough that not one paper shuffler from the DC-tax regime resigned or had a pension strip for the utter incompetence that led to 9/11, otherwise patriotic conservatives have signed on for a meaningless debt financed war, that leaves the country even more vulnerable to those who would do us harm, like a China that holds enough US debt to at the least, turn an election

Dark days indeed.

[MacDorcha]

arent most rightwingers conservative, thus anti-marxist? im sure you are reffering to a minority within our party.

[MacDorcha]

" a meaningless debt financed war, that leaves the country even more vulnerable to those who would do us harm, like a China that holds enough US debt to at the least, turn an election "

i guess the facts that most of the planet ows us money, yet we still send more and supplies each year. china may have some of our money owed, but china's allies owe us as well. as for a war in debt, most wars have resulted in an economic upturn. playing the market is a keystone to most conservative platforms, this is one of their principles. these days are no darker than any other, and it also holds the promise of further prosparity and safety because of our "debt-funded" wars.

people have been trying to tell me you cant spend out of a debt. these people usually forget the word "investment"

[MacDorcha]

appeasment? MAD was a program of appeasement? dog fights over no-fly zones and vietnam were appeasment? wow, i had no clue. in that case, we should have applied that style of appeasement to germany pre 1938.

[JohnGalt]

Minority? Absolutely. They just happen to dominate "conserative" Fox News and positions of power with in the administration.

[JohnGalt]

You misread the post; Reagan practiced containment which was the general strategy from a geopolitical point of view for the Cold War. Think Persia vs Greece, Macedonia vs Greece, Carthage vs Rome as alternative battle to the deaths.

LBJ fruitless war was an example of utterly failed confrontation.

The Second World War was fought to save Joe Stalin whose agents dominated the FDR administration.

Again, you may have some unlearning to do or you can just keep thinking as the gubmint educators instructed you on what is permissible thought and what is not..

[MacDorcha]

you're talking down to someone who has been kicked out of class because he wouldnt shut up when the "gubmint" schools tried to give the class wrong or debatable information. i would appreciate it if you would not talk down to me as if you had a clue how i think and who i am.

i also understand the practice of containment. the way you worded it though, it seemed you were trying to spin reagan into a liberal. try seperating your thoughts more.

[MacDorcha]

"The Second World War was fought to save Joe Stalin whose agents dominated the FDR administration. "

i was sure the whole Japan killing our boys in Hawaii had something to do with it. they tried keeping out of the war for as long as they could as well. now, i may agree that FDR kept our troops from getting to Berlin quicker to allow the Commies time to get there first, but i must disagree that we fought it to save them. we didnt even enter the damn thing for a few years, and Germany was already licking its wounds from its echo of Napoleans biggest boner by the time of the battle of the bulge.

[JohnGalt]

Reagan was the best of his times, and a conservative of the New Deal 'order,' which in many respects makes him a 'liberal', even if a conservative in his day.

[JohnGalt]

Japan was manipulated into attacking the United States to prevent Japan from invading the Soviet Union through Siberia. FDR's Secretary of War Stimson wrote as much in his diary. With recent archival research presented in the Venona Secrets, we learn that Harry Hopkins was an agent of the Soviet Union.

Although Roosevelt had campaigned in 1940 on the basis of promising to keep the United States out of war, he quickly reversed his position. In January, 1941, he sent Harry Hopkins to London to confer with Churchill. Hopkins informed the latter that:

The President is determined that we shall win the war together. Make no mistake about it. He has sent me here to tell you that at all costs and by all means he will carry you through, no matter what happens to him--there is nothing that we will not do so far as he has human power.

There is absolutely zero truth to the notion that FDR was trying to keep the United States out of the war, and his administration was doing everything it could to provoke a war with either Japan or Germany. Lots of unlearning...

[Flightdeck]

"Like any conservative would suggest, close the borders, stop letting unemployed Arab males into the country, restore an atmosphere to encourage a well-armed citizenry, de-socialize the big airlines, decentralize the government, fix the monetary situation and tar and feather, well at least fire and strip the pension, of any gubmint employee with 'national security' in their title. "

America's infrastructure is so vast, it is impossible to fully protect. Thousands of power plants, millions of miles of rail and road, dozens of huge international ports with millions of ultra-large shipping containers being serviced every year, hundreds of international airports, countless heavy industrial facilities as well as high-tech information hubs. It is laughably impossible to defend all of our assets against freaks who want them destroyed and us dead. By not going after UBL and Al Quaeda and other terrorist orgs and supporting governments, it is only a matter of time until they would again heavily damage us, and quite simply a death sentence. This situation is clearly one where the ONLY good defense is a strong offense.

[JohnGalt]

So it is laughible to believe the homeland can be protected, but rational and sober to think billion dollar debt financed invasions all around the globe will end 'terrorism'?

LOL, and how's the kool aid?

Stay safe friend...

[Flightdeck]

No, read carefully. I said it is laughable to DEFEND all of America's assets passively. They can be protected on the other hand, by destroying first what would destroy them. EX: If Al Quaeda and UBL had been destroyed before 9-11, the Trade Center would still be there. So yes, billion dollar-financed invasions of terror-centers around the globe will help protect the homeland.

And what's with the condescension? This is the first time I've ever posted to you, and I did so civilly. It seems you can't see the arrogance for the head.

[MacDorcha]

i am noting the copyright date on this is 2003. it seems to be VERY new information, at least as collected as it is. having not been in a history class since 2001, i must say that im not totally convinced that i was mislead with the information i could gather. (as far as information was available to me)

i will concede that information was unknown to me, and though it does not change my opinion of FDR (largely because it was my feeling of him in the first place) i do see him in a greater light.

[MacDorcha]

"Reagan was the best of his times, and a conservative of the New Deal 'order,' which in many respects makes him a 'liberal', even if a conservative in his day."

..... thats a long way to say "moderate conservative" which is why he was so popular in the first place. dont put that liberal lable with him. you may as well call TR a Treehugger.

[MacDorcha]

this is a sad truth i must point out. if we decentraized our government, we would weaken our deffenses as the local governments would either A) not have the funding to do a good job. B) not have tyhe programs to do a good job. or C) instead of a party system, we would get several states forming alliances to vote against other states. im sure its easy to see how that would escalate.

i did not have a problem with the Confederate States when they left the US, and have some shame that the US attacked them anyway. but because of the Civil War, we are now the super-power we've come to be. an eventual good out of it.

if we broke apart now, im not sure that the outcome would be as exculsive to US only. which i could only see in the result of us being carved like a 5000/1 scale model of Berlin.

[JohnGalt]

Apologies for the tone--it was out of line on a combative thread.

AQ would not exist if the CIA had not employed it in Charlie Wilson's War against Afghanistan. First, tar and feather the government officials who screwed up, and then talk about how to go about tying up the loose ends.

Debt financing in international markets has national security implications on its own; two that come to mind is the debt held by China and the potential for oil republics to switch from the dollar to a different currency.

[JohnGalt]

TR was a radical liberal; Reagan passed an amnesty for illegal aliens, presided over a large growth in government, "saved" Social Security by raising taxes, and presided over, with Volker, a massive depreciation of the dollar.

[JohnGalt]

What good has the DC tax regime brought us? That is an awfully large presumption on your part.