Yeah, like I said, it's refreshing, especially after dealing with that other thread, and some of the past ones.
My favorite dodge has got to be the overworn "It'll be another Viet Nam!" bit. No disrespect at all meant to VN vets on this, but it drives me nuts when presumably smart folk compare a counterinsurgency jungle war, run by a corrupt Democrat to an open-country conventional war run by an honest Republican, almost four decades later. Do they not see ANY difference at all? C'mon, people, WORK with me here!
It has been said of the leftists of that era that they "cannot learn and cannot forget". How true. Their lives were wrapped up tightly protesting the war in VN, to the point that it became the reason for their existence. Thus, the Left tends to view ANY use of American power through that prism, no matter how irrational or wrong-headed it may be. A lot of them, I'm convinced, would like those "sex-love-dope" times back.
Great points, 'Cut.
I'm trying to understand the far right on this -so far right they hate our POTUS - and maybe that's what drives them. It strikes me as odd that they can't put their hatred for President Bush on the back burner long enough to understand that it's their own protection and well being he is fighting for.
I thank God there are people in charge who recognize the threat (Condi Rice: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud") and are willing to step up and deal with it. The left and the far right are shaking hands on this one. It's reckless and crazy thinking. I never thought I'd see the day when Freepers would hate a Republican president so much they'd be echoing Al Gore all over this forum, but here we are.
"My favorite dodge has got to be the overworn "It'll be another Viet Nam!" bit."
I tell you Brother I am so sick of hearing this BS line.
Fact is the military won that war.
The politicians just quit that war.
55% (the silent majority) were in favor of that war yet DC just walked away.
Over 58,00 Americans (from Eishenhower to Nixon) died in vain.
Because not one of the 4 different administrations ever did anything to win that war.
That is NOT the case with this administration.