Posted on 09/03/2006 10:03:43 AM PDT by meandog
GUADALAJARA--I'm wondering. Help me wonder. Either Georgie Bush is the minor, depressing, witless ferret I think he is, or I am. It has to be one or the other. If things don't start looking up pretty soon internationally, I'm going to be pretty sure which.
As best as I can tell, what the Maximum Cipher lacks, among an inexhaustible list of other things, is a hop toad's understanding of how people work. Here we have the explanation of just about everything he does. He's dealing with a world full of people, but has no idea what people are. He probably couldn't recognize one. So he doesn't take their predictable behavior into account.
Think about it. When he went braying into Iraq, he thought people would roll over, throw flowers, and have a democratic revolution. This would start a domino effect that would make all the other Muslim countries want to be democracies, too. They would climb over each other to be democracies. They would love us because democracies love each other. He just knew it.
This makes perfect sense if you have no flipping idea how human beings work.
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I agree. War should be fought in a totally unrelenting and aggressive manner. Destruction of the enemy should be the order of the day, every day. Crushing, overwhelming and continuous force, day in and day out. No quarter ever asked or given. War should be made so horrible, so devastating for the enemy that they will realize they either surrender or die. Once we stop sanitizing this war it will shortly end.
This war reminds me of a street fight where the big guy is afraid to rip the little guys throat out because someone may think it's unfair. Never mind that the little guy started the fight to begin with.
The best criticism I have heard is that whoever is in charge has more interested in process than in cutting solid deals with those who really matter. Instead of setting up paper governments, they should have cut secret deals that divied up the power and told them if they delivered we would support them when crunchtime came. The difference between Polysci 101 and politics Mayor Daly style.
If it should fail, the result is less likely to be another tyranny. There are many ways to skin a cat with democracy, and I don't think they have even scratched the surface of the various possible derivatives.
Right now, it is the steaming and pent up rage against the Sunni's by the long dominated and abused Shia, and Iranian interferences that prevent any deals from being struck.
The worm should turn soon. All is not lost. They have options now.
They have lay-ed a groundwork that is flexible.
What emerges may be different, but it will tweak Iran and Syria, and likely cause revolution in these countries eventually.
This part: The fact that we are in war against ALL OF ISLAM, something the president (who calls it "the religion of peace" doesn't seem to understand? I also do not believe that Muslim culture allows for "democracy" but perhaps a simpler form of it (based entirely upon a "strong man" being an enlightened despot).
If you're saying that I believe that McCain would have done a better job of conducting the GWOT than Bush, then I would agree with you... Incidentally, I voted for Bush (twice, the first time--though McCain was defeated in the primaries--because of the opposition he faced and I honestly believed him to have the qualities of Reagan even ; the second time because of the opposition he faced).
The simple truth is, both you and I know that McCain would have gone off the deep end by now. He's not capable of handling the kind of stress the WOT creates, and there is no way he would survive the kind of stress that lays ahead for the next president.
It's you Fred.
I read no further than the first sentance.
Says it all for me. No mention of graduation and any education beyond but of course his view of things is so much more authoritative than W's
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