Bush's inexperience is showing

Toronto Sun ^ | 12/02/01 | Eric Margolis

[Travis McGee]

"BARF ALERT"

[billhilly]

Sensible Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the administration's sharpest mind, Secretary of State Colin Powell, are trying to restrain the Sharonistas, who seem dangerously close to convincing Bush to launch a crusade against much of the 1.2-billion-person Islamic world. They failed with clever Bill Clinton, but are succeeding with the unworldly Bush.

Colin Powell is no doubt a very bright man, but he has always gotten extra IQ points for his skin color. It is the usual knee-jerk leftist media reaction. Also, clever Bill Clinton gets his usual share of praise.

[dighton]

Aculeus, I believe you've posted Margolis columns in the past. Has he (recently) gone off the deep end?

[AnnaZ]

Ditto.

[LarryM]

Margolis is nothing more than a terrorist shill. He's never found an Islamic terrorist he didn't love.

[Liberal Bob]

THIS IS A SPIN SIN

[NeonKnight]

Russia now dominates Afghanistan, thus reversing its historic defeat of the 1980s, shutting the U.S. and Pakistan out of Central Asia, and ensuring future Russian control of the Caspian Basin's oil and gas resources. Bush was too busy trying to "smoke out" outlaws Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar to notice his new best friends, the Russians, had drygulched him and grabbed the lion's share of Afghanistan.

...and what is wrong with Russian control of these resources? They have proven themselves a reliable supplier of oil, and have even had the courage to defy OPEC from time to time. I am confident it was all worked out at the Bush/Putin summit in Crawford. And I am confident the President insured American interests.

[hflynn]

The inexperience of the Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban is what is showing. You live by the sword you die by the sword.

[Telit Likitis]

We Know who Eric's friends are! Love the Taliban

- Telit

[SamAdams76]

The Alliance proclaimed itself Afghanistan's legitimate government last week. Moscow recognized the Alliance, and rushed "advisers" and troops into Afghanistan.

So what? Let them have that cesspool. Just so long as Afghanistan can no longer serve as a base of operations for terrorists to attack our country. The Russians are a lot of things but they aren't terrorists. And they won't allow Islamic terrorists to gain a foothold there again.

As for the Russians getting the oil, again, so what? I'd rather the U.S. buy oil from the Russians than a bunch of crazed Muslims. Is the author suggesting that WE occupy Afghanistan and exploit their oil resources? No thanks. Afghanistan is in Russia's backyard. Let them have it.

[LarryLied]

My take on it too. Margolis is just upset over a US/Russian alliance. It puts his eurotrash socialist buddies out in the cold.

[lawgirl]

Wow what a crock of crap.

[LarryLied]

Margolis does serve a social function however. He shovels all the left wing crap in one neat pile.

[freekitty]

This guys say Bill Clinton is worldly. Right, there is only one thing Bill Clinton is wordly about and we all know what that is. Another thing, is you are not worldly simply because you travel. You have to experience life; not travel in protected luxury.

[Disgusted in Texas]

Most definitely!!!!

[LadyDoc]

This is not D-Day, nor the Alamo, and certainly no reason to launch America on the 21st century's first world war.

The difference between 911 and D day (or the Alamo) is that more people died on 911 than in either of these battles. The second difference is that they were civilians.

For all his blather about the Northern allience being ruthless, he forgets that the US can be ruthless also.

Maybe Amnesty international is crying over a bunch of terrorists, mainly Chechnians and Pakistanis, that were massacred when they revolted AFTER they had surrendered, but I suspect that thousands of Russians and Pakistanis will be alive in the future because these "innocent" terrorists won't come home to spread the terror.

(Not to mention the danger of a couple thousand armed men lose behind your lines is not very smart: any soldier would know that, but presumably liberals know nothing about war. )

[blackbart1]

DITTO!