A strategic blunder? (Can you say "barf"?)

Townhall.com | April 3, 2003 | Paul Craig Roberts

[AgThorn]

This garbage is NOT a piece that you would usually find on Townhall, which is predominantly a conservative well-thought out collection of authors.

Made a hero out of Saddam? A guy that hangs women for waving? puts women and children in bus's to get killed? Makes a guy pretend to be a suicide bomber under threat of killing his family (Muslim Shi'ite Cleric attestment), cut's the tongues of people that oppose him and leaves them to bleed? gas's his own people? bomb's a market with the hope of blaming the coalition (but quickly gathers the shrapnel that proves it was one of his own missles). etc etc etc etc

I think that when this war is over and the war crimes are tabled, and I am including crimes against humanity over the last 30 years that will come forth as well, we will not have an "image" problem as this so called "writer" is fearful of.

[Catspaw]

Paleomoron....snicker.....

I'll have to read the piece again. Did he say "quagmire?" If he didn't, it's implied.

[Sender]

I didn't read 'quagmire' but he did make use of 'stalemate', 'setback', 'unexpected resistance', 'civilian casualties', 'genocide', 'occupier' and 'terrorist'. I give him a B+ on the DUmmy scale.

[Catspaw]

LOL! Buy this guy a clue: we've taken Baghdad International Airport and we're knock knock knockin' on Saddam's door.

And there are more than a few Islamic nations--like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar--who want to see Saddam and his regime go.

[hchutch]

Will do.

[Nick Danger]

In addition to the Benedict Arnold award, I think Roberts also deserves the Bad Timing Award. Apparently he didn't get the memo about the "stalled, setbacks, unexpected resistance, 40 days and 40 nights of pause" rhetoric. That is no longer operative.

The bodies of the formerly elite Republican Guard are stacked like cordwood, their tanks are smoking wrecks, we own the Baghdad airport 8 miles from town, and this clown issues another Quagmire Alert.

I don't think the press liberals understand how thoroughly they are discrediting themselves in the eyes of the American people. Here's "film at 11" of U.S. infantrymen strolling through the now-empty Saddam International Airport, and here comes Mr. Network News Anchor to tell us it's been another day of failure and setbacks. It's hard to tell the difference between them and Peter Arnett.

[Landru]

"...they've gotten to the point where fewer of them are pretending to be any different than the America haters of the anarchic left."

An optomist, huh?? {g}

Of course you're correct.
I've taken quite a bit of flak from some mighty damned good, well meaning people (here) due to my refusing to differentiate between the average, pedestraian-grade "America hater," the "anarchic left," or their uselful idiots pulling the left handle.

Any compassion my heart ever held has long since been turned into stone.
My days of rationalizing the behavior(s) of the Left, as a whole, are over.
These people must be held responsible for their behavior(s).

On the morning of 911 as I watched the horrifing images transmitted from downtown NYC, I sensed -- in my bones -- precisely where all of it would ultimately lead.

I also felt a strange foreboding -- knowing our mediots as I like to think I do -- that in spite of common sense, good taste, or the logic that'd -- not just dictate -- but would demand our POTUS strike at the very heart of these truly evil peoples I just knew the Liberal-Socialist's would cleverly devise many & varied ways in which to turn the whole damned thing around on us.

I just knew it'd happen because such a response on our part would demand we acquire a national resolve, that we embrace a strong belief in who we are as a society, a culture, a peoples.
Every single thing the Liberal-Socialists have been attempting to destroy -- in earnest -- for the past god-only-knows how many decades would be at stake.
As such the Liberal-Socialists c/would have NONE of it, regardless the cause, just because.

When Iraq's over?
We all have buesiness to tend to -- a "war" if you like -- right here at home to deal with; whether, we want to admit it, or not.

The present ilk of Liberal-Socialist are not going to go away; not, unless they're forcefully expelled.
So, IF there's really going to be a "WWIII," as the Liberal-Socialist mediots have been screaming??
Then they're predicting precisely where they ultimately intend on taking this while they fan the flames using their pitiful rags & nets.

As I see it?
The Liberal-Socialist will become the Axis power we'll be fighting.

...& not the Islamafanatic. /rant

[Brett66]

Oops, another idiot predicting "quagmire" that should've waited a couple of days before we rolled into the outskirts of Baghdad.

[JimRed]

I think Roberts also deserves the Bad Timing Award.

Sounds like he wrote the piece in advance and forgot to hit the "delete" button when it bacame irrelevant on day two.

[JimRed]

...bacame...

That's BECAME...100 times...I promise to proof my stuff better next time....

[Happygal]

Great post! :-)

[scholar]

The Liberal-Socialist will become the Axis power we'll be fighting.

You nailed it again. I fear the "enemy within" far more than I do Iraq, Iran or North Korea. The Liberal/Socialist agenda in our country is doing more to chip away at the foundation of our great nation than any despotic regime could ever accomplish.