Posted on 07/20/2007 6:12:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MSNBC’s Olbermann thinks Iraq is the “most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austro-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process.” With a good Kraut name like Olbermann, you’d think he’d know better.
Somebody needs to tell Olbermann about World War II, European and Asian-Pacific theaters. Hard to know where to start with that one. Germany’s bloody and tragic overreach starting in 1939, or Japan’s going back to 1931? Germany’s 1941 invasion of Russia has to be near the top of anyone’s list, if you want to narrow it down to a single campaign. How about the pair of them, Germany and Japan, forcing the United States into the war. Then there’s the Holocaust. Very disastrous geopolitical tactic that Germany is paying for, in cash and shame, to this day. On the Allies’ side, the betrayal of eastern Europe at Yalta and the initiation of 45 years of Cold War with periodic hot flashes wasn’t exactly a stellar moment. That was in large measure a certain sainted Democrat’s doing, so Olb can be forgiven for overlooking that one.
But I’m surprised, as a lefty of a certain age, Olbermann has forgotten about Vietnam. Some would argue that was a disastrous geopolitical tactic: JFK and LBJ’s. I don’t. They wanted to contain Soviet and Chinese communism, which was swallowing nations at that time. JFK, LBJ and finally Nixon and Ford might have succeeded. I’d suggest the disaster in that case was when Congress cut off the funds and forced the abandonment of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Several million geopolitically disastrous deaths and 35 years of enslavement later … never mind the geopolitical disaster that was the humbling of the United States, to which the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the emboldening of Islamic extremists can be directly attributed.
But enough about historical footnotes. In the latest of his idiotic diatribes, Olbermann identifies Iraq as the greatest geopolitical disaster of the last century and calls on the President of the United States to go fight in Iraq. He’s all exercised because Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman told Hillary Clinton to put a cork in it, her campaign posturing is providing aid and comfort to the enemy. Olbermann cites the actions of Burnside, a general who had just sent 12,000 men to their deaths* in one day, and Churchill, forced to resign after tens of thousands were killed in a matter of months in the futile Gallipoli campaign. The deaths of 3,500 Americans in a four-year war in which mistakes were made are tragic, but hardly the greatest geopolitical disaster of the past 90-odd years. Could be, though, if those selfless sacrifices are made to be in vain at a time when all indications are we can win this campaign in a war to defend our fundamental security and values.
Anyway, having worked himself up, Olbermann fires off the latest chickenhawk salvo:
Sen. Clinton has reinforced enemy propaganda? Made it impossible for you to get your ego-driven, blood-steeped win in Iraq?
Then take it into your own hands, Mr. Bush.
Go to Baghdad now and fulfill, finally, your military service obligations.
Go there and fight, your war. Yourself.
(I’m not sure Sen. Clinton or anyone else in the abandonment camp has quite managed to make Bush’s “ego-driven, blood-steeped win in Iraq” impossible yet. It’s been a tremendous frustration for them. But whatever …)
Which of course calls for the next chickendove response:
Take it in your own hands, Mr. Olbermann.
Go to Baghdad and finally, fulfill your peacenik obligation.
Go there and present yourself as a human shield, so that perhaps one innocent Iraqi, out of the hundreds of thousands who could be slaughtered in the bloody chaos and genocide that would follow a precipitous withdrawal, might be spared.
(Probably not, because the chickendove peacenik human shield record of actually standing ground isn’t very good, and murderous jihadis are likely to view them only as a bonus prize. But … )
Think of the thunderous statement of moral outrage it would make. Much better than these ridiculous diatribes. You jackass.
He misspelled Douche bag.
The lady certainly put this clown Olbermann in his place yet again. But really this guy must have photos of Dan Abrams in an Atlanta airport men’s room with not one but three boys and one dog to stay on the air.
Granted his ratings are horrible consistently in the third or fourth place position about a million viewers behind O’Reilly and his stealing from left wing blogs without attribution has become a running joke. And we won’t even mention his belief that he is Edward R. Morrow or that the he was the model for Will Farrell’s character Anchorman. But how does this idiot stay on television? Satire?
Olbermann is a waste of stardust and space in the infinite expanse of the universe...
Nah, Keith is a hero to the lefties nowadays. His patriotism cannot be callenged. Neither can Harry’s, Hil’s, Murtha’s. They are all fine people and just want fairness for the jihadists. Bush is a coward and a putz. Keith is the pure whole commentator. A mix of A. Stevenson, A. Hiss, and A. Hitler. But, don’t tell him that. He doesn’t remember those 3.
You could replace him with 30 year old reruns of the Wally George show and the ratings - and level of on set decorum - would go up.
Yes, Olbermann’s ratings are consistently at the bottom of the ranks, but sadly enough for MSNBC, he’s their biggest draw by far. The only reason he still has a job is because without him, Abrams could count MSNBC’s viewers on one hand (as opposed to using both as he does now).
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