Posted on 04/12/2008 12:31:48 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
In this final year of the Bush presidency, what was once a doctrine of preemption has given way to a weird presumption that threats that Washington doesn't officially acknowledge somehoe won't hurt us. It's an alarming sign when CIA director Michael Hayden says, as he did on NBC that, personally, he believes Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, but officially he stands by the NIE report that maybe they aren't. So America sails on, under the fiction that nothing dramatic need be done, despite Hayden's further warning that in Iran, "the development of fissile material, the development of delivery systems, continue apace." Likewise, the administration's special envoy for human rights in North Korea warned that the Six-Party Talks have failed. In Rice-world, these nuclear ventures can be stopped with failed talks, Iran's nuclear quest can be contained with U.N. resolutions, and peace in the Middle East can be built by downplaying Palestinian terrorism to clinch the umpteenth "peace" deal between Palestinians and Israelis. These fantasies are a strange counterpoint to the surge in Iraq where the administration has correctly understood that America must win. But Iraq is the exception, not the rule.
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And yet so many of us were supporters of President Bush and Condoleeza Rice in the "old days".
They have caved irretrievably and hopelessly to evil forces around the world. North Korea. Iran. Syria. China. Myanmar. Palestinian terrorists.
It is now fully an AXIS OF APPEASEMENT.
And it disgusts many of us Security-First, Freedom-First, international-oriented Freepers to no end!
We are happy we are in the "lame duck" mode now, but we know things will continue or even worse from 2009. This is serious business.
And blame Congress, don't blame the President. Because if the nest Congress is controlled by the Democrats, nothing will change.
Right.
Just so everyone knows - “Syria is on notice!”
It was my opinion that Bush was in a foreign policy denial mode from about October 1999 on. Even before he held office, he was already revealing the surrender monkey flag to Mexico. He was already signaling that China would be getting the kit glove treatment.
As you pointed out, we had a number of threats out there, and Bush acted as if none of them were all that important, even after 09/11. When the guy said that he wasn’t going to leave any rock unturned in his efforts to seek out and destroy terrorists, my ears perked up a bit. But then we were back to business as usual with regard to our borders or more accurately, a lack thereof. It was business as usual with the Palestinians, Hezballah and all. We were back to warning Israel, telling it what it needed to surrender next in the interest of peace. I had no idea Bush would be this tough on terrorists, or that he actually believed Israel was a terrorist state, but it’s the one he’s making all the demands on.
China knocked our aircraft out of the sky and we sat in a corner like a neutered chijuaua. There was always the WOT to point the finger to, to say Bush was tough on terrorism. Nothing else mattered.
We are looking at a growning number of (terrorist) states with nuclear weapons. We sit back and watch North Korea proliferate nuclear technology to our most ardent adversaries, and play like six nation talks are going to get us anywhere. It’s truly pathetic.
I have been disgusted with Bush since day -365. What bothers me more than his actions/inactions, is the public fawning that has taken place on this forum over the last eight years. These people not only fiddled as Rome burned, they praised, idolized and knelt down to the main fiddler. We have spent eight years watching them pray for Bush, and not one day praying for the nation, or only as an afterthought.
With leaders and supporters like that, why bother trying any longer. It’s truly been a real eye opener to see the complacency even here. We are now poised to put a man even worse into the White House by choice, and folks still don’t realize what a desperate situation our nation is in.
Denial? Bush isn’t the only one sipping from a cup clear full of it.
The absurdity of your comments in that post is overwhelming. Please tell us what international efforts intended to take terrorist states to task, that Bush has pushed, that have been shot down by Congress.
Very good references and we’re in complete agreement. Let me add that although this isn’t the first administration or Congress to kick the can down the road and hope that others in the future will deal with matters, seldom have the issues put on the back burner been more serious. A nuclear Iran and Korea change the dynamics of the international power structure so egregiously that things will never be the same. Chamberlain at Munich may have been naive but even he didn’t have the clarity that we have to know what is VERY LIKELY to happen in the future!
He most certainly can. He has the Bully Pulpit. He can go before the American people and expose the so called Democratic Party for the Marxists that they really are.
I’m sure that Jimmy “never met a terrorist I didn’t like” Carter will resolve this in his talks with Hamas and jihadist regimes. After all, look how he groveled and rolled over for the Ayatollah of Iran in 1979!
And what would you possibly expect from any international efforts? The international community just wants to hide its collective head in the sand.
And the Republicans lost Congress because . . .?
Do you SERIOUSLY still believe Bush is a conservative? I am simply stunned that there are any who believe that to be true.
Hasn’t the media over past 5 years blasted Bush and the Pentagon for listening to the CIA in the first place? Besides trying to get Bush at both ends, the media is bringing this to our attention because ...?
I couldn’t even get into the substance of the article. The writing was so bad it made blood shoot out of my eyes. I learned about run on sentences in seventh grade.
I don’t really know why but if I had to guess I’d say that was because the CIA (like just about everybody else in the world) was wrong about the WMD in Iraq. Also, George Tenet (Democrat hangover) made a fool of himself with his notorius “slam dunk” remark. By the way, the CIA was neutered by the infamous Church Commission back in the 70’s and made PC by having its great espionage capabilities gutted. In any case, the media went after Bush for everything - what Krauthammer calls the “Bush derangement syndrome.”
America is snakebit and may be nuked before anyone wakes up. We are now a communist country and will die with a quick death, perhaps a nuke attack, or a slow death, as politicians destroy America from within and send our wealth overseas.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people of the earth imagine a vain thing. Or to put it another way,
Psalms 2
1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee.
8. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12. Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
The man won't even stick up for himself, let alone his party, the military, and, at times, his country. NOW reports are coming out that yes indeedy, Iraq sure did have WMD, a large portion of which are now in Syria--and the President surely had to know this, yet he'd just stand there and look guilty when people accused him of lying to get us into Iraq.
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