April 09, 2006
Possibly on the assumption that his recent New York Times op-ed was an excuse for sound international U.S. policy, Senator John Kerry fleshed out his agenda with a huge display of arrogance, opportunism and outright defeatism on "Meet the Press" this morning.
The transcript is not available yet, but his message was essentially the same: that only by withdrawing troops can we win, that only by threatening to leave will the Iraqis form a government, that only by leaving Iraq to Iran and the terrorists will we (somehow) defeat the terrorists because in doing so we will put an end to their number one recruitment tactic and thus put an end to the civil war (being conducted by ordinary Iraqis who have nothing to do with terrorism, or so Kerry says).
And of course all of this can be accomplished easily, as Kerry told us in his op-ed.
For three years now, the administration has told us that terrible things will happen if we get tough with the Iraqis. In fact, terrible things are happening now because we haven't gotten tough enough. With two deadlines, we can change all that. We can put the American leadership on the side of our soldiers and push the Iraqi leadership to do what only it can do: build a democracy.
Deadlines. That's it! Get those people some day planners and Palm Treos immediately! The war is won!
This of course coming from the man, and party, who screamed to high heaven that if only Bush would delay the election, would delay the constitution, would delay delay delay delay...then all of our problems in Iraq would be solved. If only Bush has listened.
And now if only Bush would set deadlines, everything would be fine... Of course the only deadline Democrats seem interested in is the one that would create the most chaos. How stupid are Democrats that they cannot see the strategy of the enemy? If terrorists hear we're about to pull out, do Democrats really believe the terrorists are going to pack it in and leave? Or that they're going to hurry up to "get their war in with America" before they miss out on the chance to fight the infidel? Or that they'll somehow cry over "reduced" recruiting?
Of course not.
They're going to sit back and bide their time, biting our rear-ends on the way out and then celebrating that they've a new country to pillage. They will trumpet the "defeat of America" to the heavens and recruit jihadists to their hearts' content. Because they only thing terrorists understand (oddly enough, as Osama has talked about in every one of his home movies) is strength. And regardless of what moral relevance and mindless military strategy Kerry proffers, pulling our troops out before the job is done is called defeat.
Yet on "Meet the Press" Kerry lamented how the administration had not contacted him even once on Iraq, to seek his advice.
Shocking, I know. But perhaps if Tim Russert had promoted Kerry's credentials and commitment to the Koran? Maybe then the Bush administration would give him a call?
A Roman Catholic who has struggled at times to talk about his own faith, Mr. Kerry also told the group that he believed "deeply in my faith" and that the Koran, the Torah, the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles had influenced a social conscience that he exercised in politics.
"I will tell you, nowhere in there, nowhere, not in one page, not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ, can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicaid and taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich," Mr. Kerry said.
Yes, the parable about government health care was a good one.
(h/t Dr. Sanity)
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