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.

[Valin]

You do realize that there is no cash prize for being the idiot of the day?

[CanadianLibertarian]

"I'm a Pakistani...I do, however, care deeply about my country...When I visited my ancestral homeland of Afghanistan last year"

...yeah, I am relieved this multinational phony is a Bush supporter.

Um........he's not being a phony. Many Pakis originally did come from Afghanistan, decades or centuries ago. Others came from India, Iran and even other nations.

[Huck]

It will make the 99 percent landslide "victories" of dictators around the world look like closely fought contests.

I am not convinced of this. I believe there is a very good chance that the northeastern blue states will remain blue. Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon and California could all very easily stay blue, imho. I have difficulty imagining them going for GWB.

I think GWB will pick up some of the borderline liberal states, like Pennsylvania or New Mexico, but I don't foresee a 49 state rout. But who knows? I think 45-5 is likely. Call it a 90% rout :-)

[Mr. Jeeves]

He sounds like a Pakistani national of Afghan descent, of whom I'm sure there are many.

[steve-b]

Now, now, this sort of volk-ism is what Uncle Sam cleaned up in the last big (shooting) war. Do try to keep up....

[Nonstatist]

You phony phony, you never complain about 40000 troops on the DMZ in Korea, or tens of billions spent on NATO, or billions spent in Columbia, or anything other than how we shouldnt be doing anything in the Mideast that would assist Israel even in a tertiary way. This "Pakistani" lauds Bush's effort to support freedom overseas and you embark on a personal attack on one of the few "enlightened" Pakistanis I've even read about lately. You are a pathetic shill.

[steve-b]

did you really think that is a parallel example?

Yes, as do all rational people.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

did you really think that [being an American whose ancestral home is Scotland] is a parallel example?

Afghanistan and Pakistan are neighboring muslim countries who share a porous border. It would hardly be amazing to learn that emigration had ocurred across the border, with the emmigrants and their children living in Pakistan but considering Afghanistan their "ancestral home."

So I think you're barking up the wrong tree, myself.

[MacDorcha]

i was born in germany but MY ancestral homeland is scotland. am i a phony?

[JohnGalt]

If you have missed my posts about bringing the boys home from South Korea, let it be clear, I support bringing the troops home from Korea and the 106 other countries US troops are currently stationed in, and end the racket called 'Foreign Aid.'

I don't believe, unlike the author, that the US military is the world policeman, just the protector of the United States.

You, Son, are the most misnamed poster on this board, and are little more than a statist shill.

[JohnGalt]

What do you think?

[MacDorcha]

hey, im one of the 5! :)

[ImpeachandRemove]

indymacs example is exactly parallel. There is nothing in the least bit phony about a Pakistani speaking of his "ancestral home" (the home of his ancestors) being Afghanistan if his ancestors migrated to Pakistan and became citizens.

[JohnGalt]

I am sure there is a reasonable explanation, but he put his name to a sloppy column where he says he does not care about socialism at home, claims he is a Pakistani who visited his ancestral homelands in Afghanistan, and then refers to 'his country' rather ambiguously, though I see many just assumed he meant the United States...me? not so sure...

[MacDorcha]

i think you're being an idiot. just let the guy post an article.

[JohnGalt]

The last big shooting war was fought to save Joe Stalin; I'd say the First World War was closer to your point.

[July 4th]

A nice piece. I'm glad he got it published.

[JohnGalt]

"Liberals need to realize it is only at gunpoint"

Do you blush at the author's intellectual loaning of a Robespierre idea, or do you just laugh at the other posters on this thread? I mean the irony of the War on Terror and the Reign of Terror is pure absurdist humor is isn't it?

[Not A Snowbird]

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

There's that many?! When I was in college I think there were two of us... and we both walked out on our political science professor when he started spouting leftist anti-Reagan propaganda.

[MacDorcha]

funny, here i thought England and our own asses were our major concerns durring the last big shoot out... maybe thats just me and history going off on some logic trip or something though... stalin was there, but we fought OUR war, they fought theirs. Berlin Wall anyone?