Since 9-11 we have seen the President change from valiant leader to frightened schoolboy.
Now, he has backed down from using the phrase; Islamic Fascist.
The Editors of NRO say:
"The president who swore he would not “permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons” does not show urgency in fulfilling that pledge."
What do Americans want? Clifford May states it correctly:
"Americans want what they thought they had: a military and intelligence machine capable of defeating America’s enemies, whoever they are, wherever they are."
3 comments:
It's easy to criticize from the sidelines, I do it all the time, but we are not privvy to whatever intel (however bad it may be)that the President is receiving nor do we know what his plans are in regard to Iran.
To us, it seems as if we are going nowhere, bogged down in Iraq, while some Persian half-pint and his mullahs, a south American thug, an alcoholic north Korean and a host of others all their noses and moon us.
Couple that with Israel's "apparent" debacle vs Hesbollah leader, raghead Nasrallah, Kofi Annan's UN incompetency, Putin's energy market manipulations and machinations and China's new found business acumen and France's age old duplicity and petulance.
It's no wonder people are frustrated.
Why even Pat Buchanan told the President to "lay off the counter-productive Islamo-Fascist rhetoric."
As Victor Davis Hansen wrote yesterday at National Review Online in a column entitled
The Waiting Game
The truth is that we are in a pause, a lull in a great storm that broke upon us five years ago on September 11. We are waiting to see when and where and how — not really if — the Iranians test their envisioned bomb. “Another 9/11” is now part of the lexicon, suggesting that most Americans accept that an amorphous enemy that tries to knock down the Sears Tower, to blow up the Holland tunnel, to explode airliners over the Atlantic, and to slaughter commuters from London to Madrid to the Rhine may finally get lucky once — and that once could be a death warrant for thousands of Westerners.
After 9/11 we were at war with a fascist creed that had trumped any damage to the homeland wrought by all earlier enemies, whether Germans, Italians, Japanese, or Russians. But now, five years later, we are in a holding pattern, waiting in a classic bellum interruptum — whether in exhaustion from this long war in Afghanistan and Iraq, or complacent due to our very success hitherto in preventing jihadists from enacting mass murder in the United States.
So we are in limbo — a sort of war, a sort of peace. Lulls of this nature are not such rare things in history. The Athenians and the Spartans between 421-415, or the Western Europeans between October 1939 and May 1940, likewise thought the squall had passed — the respite a sign that the enemy was satiated, or was occupied elsewhere, or had had a change of heart, or that times of transient calm might mean permanent peace
It is like waiting for the hurricane in the nearby gulf which spins first one way and then the next. Powerless to do anything we can only stressfully watch and fretfully wait for the imminent landfall.
We need another President like this.
HA! Bravecrotch! : )
A Democrat of any stripe is definitely what we don't need!
What disturbed me most was the President's apparent capitulation to C.A.I.R. If the folks in Washington don't know about that organization yet, they never will.
Yes, I agree, we are in a waiting game (a self-made one), and yes, it's easy to criticize from the sidelines, but if he can't take the heat, then get the hell out of the kitchen.
Perhaps one answer is not to attack Iran with a massive military strike. For years pundits have advocated overthrowing Iran from within and/or making pinpoint strikes on war-making facilities. Israel bombed Saddams nuclear reactor years ago. Guess who was one of the most vocal critics of Israel? George Herbert Walker Bush! The U.N. loving wimp Vice-President of Ronald Reagan.
No... I'm afraid there's something very LIBERAL and WIMPY about this present-day administration. We don't need Demonrats, that's for sure, and I'll vote accordingly come November. What we need are REAL conservatives, not R.I.N.O.S and International Socialists! Where are they? ... where are they?
The 3 articles I referenced had to do with; giving in to terrorist supporting groups due to political corectness, keeping a promise made, and demonstrating that he (the President) truely wants to win the W.O.T. by allowing our well trained military and intelligence services to actually win it. He's not doing this 3 things well at all! Also, it's more than just the W.O.T. President Bush has been very wimpy and weak domestically, as laid out, repeatedly, in this Blog. I'm all for giving "W" the benefit of the doubt. This has been given for almost 6 years now and HE STILL HAS NOT PROVEN HIMSELF!
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