Posted on 05/14/2004 5:57:13 AM PDT by Tolik
I have watched America sliding down the slippery slope for 40 years now. It always seemed like there was time to recover. I fear now we have slid very close to the edge of the cliff. Once over that cliff, there is no return without revolution.
Four years in which Kerry can run from the WOT, demolish our capability of responding to threats with force with budget cuts and PC strings, and establish a permanent left-wing monarchy in the US Supreme Court would be, I fear, more than the system can handle.
I hate to sound so apocalyptic. But if Kerry wins, I start looking for hidey-holes in other countries. Things could get really nasty here for Christians and conservatives. I have no faith in the congressional Republicans to stop any of these events.
We are indeed.
And the disturbing events that we saw in the 1990s — constant appeasement of Middle East terrorists and their national sponsors, the emergence of a nuclear Pakistan and North Korea, sudden withdrawal from messy places like Mogadishu, a jetting special envoy Jimmy Carter — will return, though made worse through the prism of the present fury over Iraq.
If it were not so tragic it would be ironic to see what the present prescient critics are going to say — much less do — when they confront the hideous reality that Iran and perhaps Syria will have acquired nuclear weapons and with them the ability, without a neighboring nuclear India staring them down, to blackmail most of the Middle East and the oil-hungry world at large.
We will soon learn what Middle Eastern nuclear honor, atomic loss of face, or radioactive jihad really means. Most who now damn unilateralism and preemption won't find their beloved but shaken U.N., EU, or NATO at their side. More likely there will come a day when in exasperation they will call up someone like Don Rumsfeld for advice — albeit in silence and off the record.
You know, this little passage brings to mind a certain gentleman's apocalyptic predictions in the late 70's , as Jimmie Carter's national experiment in a presidency of the incompetent was winding to a close -- remember how he advised us to have a ' back door ' exit plan, if the stuff ever hit the fan ?
Its apparent that if we live long enough, we're going to see another Democrat in tha office, and if present conditions prevail, and the country is at war, we are going to see another disaster.
Perhaps I am pessimistic, and some new paradigm will emerge ( ie. another political party ) , that will spare us the experience of the appeasement crowd being in power once again....
Something broke in this country in the Post-Election 2000 Attempted Coup that will never be righted.
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Walter Williams spoke for me.
A terrible idea.
We would have been on the wrong side of history.
The Iranians are among the most pro-American people on this planet.
If we support them in their struggle against the Mullahs, we will have the start of a great friendship.
The Mullans don't have much time left. The critical issue is when their Nuke Plant comes online.
bump to read later
I think that at some point as the porn show starts to fade off the screen the press is going to look back and see whoa! the place is peaceful and the government is working. They may still present that as a disaster and blame W or they may try to take credit for themselves and the Democrats somehow but it will be obvious to voters how it is.
A third party's view...
HUGE BUMP! I'm almost speachless. This was an incredible article. Thanks for the post!
Let me post once again a link to what I consider to be the last word on Iraq: War in the Absence of Strategic Clarity
Bump for another insightful VDH!
BTTT
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