Posted on 06/02/2005 2:35:08 PM PDT by iconoclast
Over the last two years, I have found increasing numbers of conservatives deeply concerned by U.S. military intervention in Iraq. They voted for and admire President Bush, but were profoundly disturbed by his second inaugural address pledging to spread democracy worldwide. Now, there is an important new book that eloquently puts in perspective their alarms about America's course in the post-Cold War world.
Sands of Empire by Robert W. Merry, a respected Washington journalist, warns of the United States as the ''Crusader State'' transporting American exceptionalism around the world. The book, to be published this month, contends this crusade threatens ''the American Republic, the greatest civic achievement in the history of mankind.''
This is no anti-Bush political screed seeking Democratic gain and Republican loss in Iraq's casualty lists. Merry over the years has been an objective journalist but considers himself a conservative and is said by friends to be a Republican who voted for Bush. What worries Merry is that Bush mixes the moralism of Woodrow Wilson and the exceptionalism of Theodore Roosevelt to produce fatal U.S. global ambitions.
You can't appease the left and defend the country at the same time.
Sorry--I couldn't read beyond this phrase.
In the anti-American lexicon, this term means a cowardly, isolationist Euroweenie-lookalike and actalike who tries to bring Neville Chamberlainesque grovelling to America in our time.
Novak has his strengths but a vigorous and effective foreign policy, particularly against the Islamofascisti of the Arab and Farsi people, is certainly not one of them.
But how do I really feel?????
Novak has never been in favor of the war---neither did Tucker Carlson, which has totally made Crossfire a joke for 3 years....(not that it wasn't before...)
This was my biggest concern when this all started. Sure, maybe it's a good idea, but if you miscalculate the resolve of the nation to carry through, we're better off not starting at all.
RealPolitik did reasonably well in containing the USSR and international communism, but was an utter failure when confronting Islamofascist terrorism. The other problem with attacking the Bush policies respecting the WOT is that they are working so well. Iran and Syria are isolated. Democracy movements are gaining strength in the Middle East. It's no walk in the park, but progress is being made for the first time that gets at the root of terrorism.
just another slam in a long list of slam's.
How did the left get into this?
Did that pesky knee jerk again?
Who DO you read?
Novak is a bore. I don't know a single conservative who can honestly call him or herself a conservative who thinks a proactive defense, such as we used in Iraq, in the war on terror is anything other than a brilliant tactic. Novak thinks because he talks with a few country club Goldwater types in Manhattan chattering circles and with a smattering of Buchananite dim bulbs, he's in touch with what conservatives are thinking. Novak should get away from the cocktail parties and Washington hacks he thinks represent middle American thinking and actually get in touch with what REAL AMERICANS and REAL CONSERVATIVES think.
What does that mean?
A very troubling and puzzling statement.
Dozens of innocent citizens and too many GI's are being killed daily.
Terrorist recruitment is apparently bottomless.
Our recruitment is in the toilet.
I wish I could live in your world!
Terrorist recruitment is apparently bottomless.
Our recruitment is in the toilet.
I wish I could live in your world!
And we are glad we are steering clear of yours.
APf
Very high sounding verbiage to describe jousting at windmills.
And we are glad we are steering clear of yours.
You avoid reality at your own peril and only in the short run.
Merry's only evident claim to journalistic fame is as publisher of "Congressional Quarterly." (Oh--he wrote a book about some journalists too.)He has no apparent background, experience, or expertise in matters of foreign policy--like Robert Novak, one might add.
What is it with libs talking about conservatives who have come to oppose Bush over Iraq or the last couple years?
Why don't I know any of them?
You're wrong, of course.
But would you prefer I post a few Arnaud de Borchgrave articles?
Everyone needs to wake up! This is not President Bush's Global Crusade. It is our Crusade. We have to defeat the Communist enemy that is trying to beat us from the inside.
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