Posted on 03/11/2007 2:34:52 PM PDT by SandRat
BFLR
Start listening to Hillary closely. She'll attack Bush on details and mismanagement (that's what the Walter Reed story is for), but she's going to get progressively hawkish as the campaign moves forward. The media will drive the Dem base to the middle ("we need to win, we just need better leadership"), thus leaving the rest of the field out on a leftward limb.
Just a hunch. There's no good reason to trust Ted Koppel's motives on this anymore than there's reason to trust the motives behind the NYT's hit-pieces on Gore and Obama in the last week.
He got the script first.
(see #122 for a possible theory.)
Was that on NPR? I'd love to get my hands on a transcript.
People a deluding themselves if they believe Ted just woke up one morning last week and suddenly got it. There's a strategic purpose behind this piece.
Interesting historical perspective that Ted forgot.
FrontPageMagazine.com| May 4, 2006 | Andrew G. Bostom
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22314
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, then serving as American ambassadors to France and Britain, respectively, met in 1786 in London with the Tripolitan Ambassador to Britain, Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja. These future American presidents were attempting to negotiate a peace treaty which would spare the United States the ravages of jihad piracy-murder, enslavement (with ransoming for redemption), and expropriation of valuable commercial assets-emanating from the Barbary states (modern Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, known collectively in Arabic as the Maghrib). During their discussions, they questioned Ambassador Adja as to the source of the unprovoked animus directed at the nascent United States republic. Jefferson and Adams, in their subsequent report to the Continental Congress, recorded the Tripolitan Ambassador's justification:
... that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.
Thanks for the info.
Where was Ted before the 2006 election?
bttt
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