"The Surge" and Politics, Some Ruminations
I've heard that the Dem/S are trying to spin the positive results of "The Surge" into failure on the political front. Dem/S congressional leaders and candidates alike have been swift to
switch from criticism of "The Surge" itself to criticism of the Malaki government. One, Senator Levin, has even called for Malaki to be removed from office by the Iraqis.
Meanwhile the POTUS has come out swinging with a
speech to the VFW that drew clear parallels between a withdrawal from Iraq and our withdrawal from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. The Dem/S
hit back by quoting the fifth columnists of the Vietnam era. In other words, their only response is to repeat the lying propaganda from their past allies in their effort to again deceive their constituents.
Will the public, the masses, be deceived? Likely, yes. More sophisticated than the Soviets or the Kim Il Sung regime in North Korea who simply cut off all contact with the outside world, the Dem/S distract the vast majority with news of such luminaries as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. So effective has this been that
2/3rds of the public admit to being ignorant of international politics and 1/3rd admit to being ignorant of US politics. Anyone who's watched Jay Leno's Jaywalking bit knows that this is hardly an exaggeration.
I think it would be pretty foolish to expect reasoned voting choices much less support for the war theater in Iraq. After all, nobody wants Americans killed, right?
I have friends who are in Iraq right now and I don't want them hurt or killed. So, when I say we need to stay it is because I think it is so important that we should risk our lives to give the Iraqis a chance at what we have while at the same time preserving the stand-off distance we have with the jihadists. The Dem/S don't think so but it is also important to prevent the inevitable ethnic/sectarian slaughter that all agree will follow a too-quick withdrawal. I have heard that one of the Dem/S even said that it didn't matter. Imagine, that the lives of women and children, anywhere, don't matter.
The Dem/S have at one time or another taken every side of this and related issues. They have been for and against going after the terrorists, for and against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, for and against more troops, for and against fewer troops, for and against "The Surge", for and against regime change/democratization of Iraq, for and remember Muslim women's rights, and so forth and so on... The only constant has been that if the POTUS was for it they were against it. Thus it is impossible to know with any certainty what they would really do once they could control the government (as opposed to actually representing their constituents).
Well, I say that the Dem/S don't care about Iraqis but if the Dem/S have their way, or what they say there way is (today), then they must not even care about their own families. After all, it is their families who live inside the target areas here in the US, not my family.
Labels: Politics
