Lancing the Boil

National Review ^ | December 16, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson

[DogByte6RER]

Dr. Hanson tells it like it is. Morning in America" is right around the corner. :)

[yldstrk]

You tell 'em!

[The_Republican]

The Reason Americans don't know about their great fortune is because our Commander in Cheif suffers from severe speech-impediment.

The Great Non-Communicator.

[Bigg Red]

The real hopeless mess was 1992-2000 when a well-meaning Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, and Dennis Ross...

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I agree with everything in this sentence except the description of "well-meaning". A more appropriate phrase would be "self-serving".

[DBrow]

It would be nice if Bush Admin officials would pick up this tone and start using it every day in every venue.

Otherwise the Deans and Kerrys take up the media bandwidth, and the average person has no idea.

The "bubble" is one created by the MSM, and encapsulates much of America.

[King Prout]

PING

[Paulus Invictus]

The best response to the anti-war idiots that I have ever read. Right on Victor!

[rlmorel]

"The Reason Americans don't know about their great fortune is because our Commander in Cheif suffers from severe speech-impediment. The Great Non-Communicator."

That would be "Commander in CHIEF" to you...:)

Your point is taken...he could be doing a better job of orchestrating a response, even if he cannot do it himself.

[Candor7]

"We risk everything, our critics abroad almost nothing." And since Canada risks nothing, that is what it should get! Lance the Boil? You bet! Here is a picture of how it feels to have these Dimwit Dems as a carbuncle on the body of our Republic.

[Iconoclast2]

Right around the corner, the debts come due, and decades of flooding the world with American paper come back to haunt us. But one can't pin this on just the Rs or Ds, it's . . .

[logic]

I was just about to yell out, "'Bout time someone told it like it was!!", then I noticed it's by V.D.H, so this is just normal.....

[ark_girl]

I dunno....he seems to have let it go too far this time. But, throughout his presidency, he's been very well served by letting his opponents go on and on saying more and more stupid stuff. Then, when his opponents have finished destroying THEMSELVES by taking the most extreme position available, Bush starts to fight back with an easy debate because is opponent is left defending the indefensible.

Drives ya nutts, but he drove Algore out of politics forever (or a very long time at the very least) and beat John Kerry with that stragegy by letting them make themselves look like fools.

[wouldntbprudent]

And this helps -- check out the lines at the polling places

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/JY8xs3uG

[humint]

In the face of that growing ulcer of discontent, we quietly kept on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. All that is finally lancing the boil, here and abroad — and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady.

What's funny is, this is exactly what the Iraqi-Americans I know are saying these days. Not these words of course but what these words mean. VDH has his finger on the pulse! Excellent post...

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

I agree...it's just that some folks don't get it.
It's so subtle, (unlike the unending, treasonous rhetoric of the democraps), that some people have gotten used to, that the eloquence of it all escapes them.

[Helotes]

The only thing he left out was the Oil for Palaces corruption.

[rlmorel]

I do wish he were more agressive in having his administration fight back. He doesn't have to do it himself, that is not his strong point.

In my opinion, his strong point is that he surrounds himself with people whose judgement he trusts, he listens to them, and serves as a moral compass for the decision making process.

I could give two hoots that he comes off has less than stellar when he opens his mouth. What REALLY impresses me about him is exemplified by this little video clip of him on my homepage:

http://homepage.mac.com/rlmorel/iMovieTheater50.html

I make no bones about it. I admire the man, and this illustrates why. He is not into the handwringing thing. If others want to follow someone around who likes to play the part of Hamlet, power to them. They can cancel my vote if they wish. I think Bush is a man of action, and this video proves it. Would Clinton have done this? Carter?

[Centurion2000]

bump

[Elsiejay]

Dare we tell the NY Slimes and the Washington Bleep about these positive developments?

[mikethevike]

My biggest complaint of G.W. has been his silence regarding the USA's success in Iraq and what it means. The USA will come out on top and the crtitics in around world won't be able to deny it was right to establish a democracy over there.