Our main problem with this war seems to be a constitutional problem (not Constitutional- deals with our cultural makeup) in that we cannot respond properly to an enemy until he hurts us very badly, more than symbolically badly as in 9-11. With Islam that will come and it will take a Democrat to respond. It will take the wild panic and indignation which I think only a Democrat is capable of to launch a sufficiently destructive and determined attack as will defeat this enemy soundly enough that Islam will not trouble the civilized world again for a couple of generations. I am here talking about nuclear missiles and they will be in response to probably the third or fourth nuclear or equivalently destructive WMD attack on an American city.
I'm registered as a conservative, but I'm really inclined more to the Torie version of conservatism than the American one. That said, I've never been much of a party person. JFK said it best, 'sometimes party asks too much.' I'm a bit of a fan of JFK. I think he was the last serious democrat the country has had. He understood that taxes are burdensome, though it probably was his father who taught him that lesson. His father may have been many things, but one of them was that he was very smart, smarter than his kids actually, especially Teddy. I mean who has to cheat on a Spanish exam, and then be forced to confess? Anybody understands why someone might cheat on a science exam or a math exam, but Spanish? Please.
Joseph Kennedy also never really forgot where he came from, and that's usually a good thing.
JFK also wasn't about pitting one group of people against another, as democrats are so famous for doing. JFK comported himself poorly in the Bay of Pigs incident, to be sure. To leave those men at the mercy of Castro and his henchmen, on the pretext that he didn't want anyone to be able to link the U.S. to the invasion, is to his everlasting shame. In the minds and opinion of the world, who else could have possibly been responsible for the invasion? Still, he acquitted himself well in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and served and loved his country, I believe.
I still can't get passed the Rumsfeld resignation. What a kind of a leader is President Bush really? This whole episode had made him seem what he never seemed to me, and that's a weasle. A man who really doesn't place the lives of our boys in Iraq first and foremost on his list. How could he do this?
His father and all great military men alive must have just wanted to wretch when he posed for his Mission Accomplished thingy.
It seems to me that the democrats that were elected are really no less right of center than many republicans, and if I'm right then this could be a welcome realignment. Our republic needs a loyal opposition, and we really haven't had one that is in a place of power for a long time now.
May God watch over all our leaders, and most especially our boys and men in Iraq. May they get the leaders they truly deserve.