Posted on 08/27/2005 4:51:10 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
Imagine what we could have accomplished in Iraq if only we didn't have to fight such a hard battle here at home and in europe.
Absolutely dead on.
Both. Hitch has a very serious job to do and I think he realizes it. He has a gift of words, one our beloved president lacks, and I think he knows his ability to tell the story is as potent a weapon in this war as any military weapon. He knows this war is just, and it appears he is taking up the sword and joining the battle. There are millions of people in the middle east who want freedome who will welcome you to the fight.
He can be a rather doctrinaire lefty on social and economic issues, but he has generally been spot on on the War Against Jihadistan.
That and some clever poll taking and you have the new Story of The Week....Bush Approval Rating drops to 40%.
Brainwashing works, folks.
That is why we have to start exposing the media at every turn in the road and shift in the talking points. They are out to crush the America we love and replace it with socialism/communism and their New World Order, run by their world wide elite.
Meaning they are riding a tiger, and don't realize that China and their Islamofascist minions are going to eat them as well as us at the end of the ride. Heck, most of them probably don't know who their true masters are, and speak only with their handlers who claim another master, the world socialist party.
Just a taste of H.H.Monroe, the main course will come later.
He was killed in the great war alas, but some of his war poetry lives on, although a pitifully small amount it is.
Hitchens is such a great writer, I'm glad his talents
have finally found a cause worthy of them.
Now off to the post office, or is that redundant?
t.
Ooops, forgot to include the quote!!!
"THERE IS, first, the problem of humorless and pseudo-legalistic literalism. In Saki's short story The Lumber Room, the naughty but clever child Nicholas, who has actually placed a frog in his morning bread-and-milk, rejoices in his triumph over the adults who don't credit this excuse for not eating his healthful dish:
"You said there couldn't possibly be a frog in my bread-and-milk; there was a frog in my bread-and-milk," he repeated, with the insistence of a skilled tactician who does not intend to shift from favorable ground.":
Childishness is one thing--those of us who grew up on this wonderful Edwardian author were always happy to see the grown-ups and governesses discomfited.
Just a taste of H.H.Monroe, the main course will come later.
He was killed in the great war alas, but some of his war poetry lives on, although a pitifully small amount it is.
Hitchens is such a great writer, I'm glad his talents
have finally found a cause worthy of them.
Now off to the post office, or is that redundant?
t.
Yep. If anyone were to take into account just how long the mass media has been telling us about support for the president AND the WOT "slipping, sliding, plummeting, dropping" etc., support for both should be well into the negative numbers by now.
Oh and "(tragedy du jour here) amid increasing violence". They've been saying THAT for over a year. If violence had REALLY increased every day for over 365 days, the population of Iraq and number of coalition forces ought to have been cut roughly in half by now from the attrition rate. But the left won't do the math and younger Americans don't know how.
It's not Iraq POLICY that was wrong. It's the way it was presented.
And handed out to every non-resident in Crawford, TX (and maybe the prime resident, too, for good measure).
worth reading in its entirety....
worth reading in its entirety....
Well worth pondering...
No, I'm not having that much fun.
CNC programming. Milling machines. Airplane parts.
Great article.
And what has become of that other Brit journalist often so conflicted lately...Andrew Sullivan? Nothing of his has been posted lately it seems.
I was just joshing. And I have to get to work too.
I have to finish some CAD drawings - HVAC blueprints to 'civilians' for a new School. Construction meeting on Wed, the contractors need my drawings Monday a.m.
Time to get the AutoCAD up and running :-)
One problem is that currently according to the polls (which he supposedly ignores) only the "true believers" now trust President Bush.
Our country is a republic, not a monarchy or a dictatorship, and so it does matter what the people know and what they think.
I think Hitch is correct in saying that the administration could have and should have done a better job of explaining all of this to the people - "Yes, it must be admitted that Bush and Blair made a hash of a good case, largely because they preferred to scare people rather than enlighten them or reason with them."
I know many people trust President Bush implicitly because they feel he is an honest Christian man. However, I think we should demand at least as much accountability, honesty and explanation from someone "on our side" whom we like as we would expect of a Bill Clinton, just as a matter of principle and good government.
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