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October 13, 2006
Why are Republicans so Annoyed
I have some similar thoughts in my column this week.
The most interesting comment in ace's post is this:
I also wonder if the War in Iraq has an effect. The war isn't going well. We expected a fairly quick war and a fairly quick occupation; we got the former, but definitely not the latter.I think this is a good part of it. Lately, as the violence in Iraq continues and little political progress is made, I have had my doubts about the mission in Iraq and whether the war was worth it. Overall, I still think we needed to take out Hussein, as he was funnelling money and support to terrorists. It's hard not to get the impression, though, that the Bush administration didn't prepare as well as they should have for the war's aftermath because they thought the mission would be easier.Conservatives were, by a majority of perhaps 90%, in favor of the War in Iraq, most of us strongly so. (I know I was.) I wonder if criticizing the GOP on other issues is a way of expressing a disatisfaction with the War in Iraq which seems, somehow, forbidden. We pushed it, after all; we can hardly blame Bush for it.
Still, though, I think the war is something we need to finish.
Posted by slublog at October 13, 2006 12:00 AM
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I was aginst the war. And have had my view borne out sadly. I'm not a liberal, conservative or god forbid a moderate. Just a guy who has studied military and political history, geography, economics, and psychology.
I am here to tell you though Bush is corrupt and incompetant, the failure is much larger, it is sytemic.
Quotes for you!
The late Barbara Tuchman, in her best selling book, The March of Folly wrote:
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgement acting on experience, common sense and available information, is less operative or more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?
The Late Senator Fulbright related his opposition to any American tendencies to intervene in the affairs of other nations: Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations — to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image. Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
~James Madison
The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
~James Madison
Posted by: Tom at October 14, 2006 01:06 AM