Demosophia

I just hope the left gets the joke. They seem to be taking him awfully seriously, like the French, when in reality, he's just Al Gore's robotic pet.

I think the Hitch is profoundly repulsed by the magnitude of the intellectual dishonesty. One can be against the war, or even against the United States, but to come out of the gate swinging to the tune of "we had it coming," and then resisting every effort the US made in it's defense, including Afghanistan and Homeland Defense, and subsequently latching on to the argument that by liberating the second-most profoundly opressed population on the planet we've neglected the other things he opposes is just too much.

Was that sentence long enough?

Now, mind you, I agree with "Anonymous" that we waited way too long to strike in Afghanistan. I figure we needed to strike by the morning of Sept. 12, 2001. And I've begun to really distrust Bush's competence. I still think he's doing, at best, a half-assed job of establishing democracy in the Middle East, and we probably could have suckered Hussein into taking the first aggressive move and thereby had a virtual consensus for the invasion. And I still think he's reluctant to break the news to Americans that we're actually at war, and one really really good strategy in that war might be alternative energy sources. And I think he could hammer the left with this Hussein/Qaeda link, and even point out that we've actually found WMD, but he just seems too lazy, or something, to actually be bothered with a political fight. I think the guy's pretty close to being a dunderhead, in other words. I imagine something like 40% of the congress would make a better President. I imagine at least 40% of the phonebook could make a better President.

But I don't see that we have a lot of options. Maybe if Kerry came right out and admitted he was wrong about Vietnam, and that his actions led to the atrocities not only in the aftermath in Vietnam, but also Cambodia. Maybe then I could bring myself to vote for the guy. But right now I'm afraid I see him making the same mistakes he made thirty years ago, with catastrophic consequences this time around.

And Iran is on our plate, in some ways far worse than Iraq. I'm almost ready to hope both candidates name someone of high competence for the VP spot and then that the guy we elect slips on a banana peel (fingers crossed). Well, that's how we got T.R.. It could happen, right?

And yeah, I hate myself for it. But not that much.

The dhimmicrats seem to be taking Moore seriously, with the DNC totally behind him.
Kerry is a prototypical dhimmicrat, an appeaser extraordinaire, who says the US military should be under UN control. Kerry's very concerned about international opinion of the US.

The dhimmicrats seem to be taking Moore seriously, with the DNC totally behind him. Kerry is a prototypical dhimmicrat, an appeaser extraordinaire, who says the US military should be under UN control. Kerry's very concerned about international opinion of the US.

Yet somehow the willingness of this President to take the race for granted, without bothering to capitalize on his strengths and on a turn in some of the primary memes the Dems have been touting (Saddam/Qaeda link, WMD, and now the Niger Nuke Connection), tells me he's an absolutely miserable politician, in addition to his other deficiencies. If Kerry had been successful at convincing McCain to run with him I might well have voted for him... but I can't think of anyone else that would cause me to consider it.

But if things don't get better with regard to his handling of various international issues, or his dealing with the key memes, I may not cast a vote for President. I really am about fed up with the guy. And it's not merely superficial impatience either. Objectively I just don't think he has both feet on the ground. He seems only dimly aware of the challenges and the way forward, and simply hasn't given the Democratization of the Middle East anything like a serious effort. If we are successful in Iraq it'll be because of the exceptional quality of our military rank and file, and not to G.W. Bush. I keep waiting to see a glimmer of an idea from him, but it's never there. I don't think he has what it takes, and I really resent the fact that I have to choose the lesser evil. If he doesn't at least start sticking up for himself I think I'll start considering Plan C.

Update: It's also beyond foolish to believe that we need Europe as much as Europe needs us. Wretchard delineates the new alignment.

I take it then you don't think its a master plot to save all the proof (for those not actually paying attention) for the debate or September? Bush is pretty much a dunderhead but al least he sees the global jihad. Kerry sees.....what...economic opresssion? the results of American imperialism? who knows but its not the religious war being waged against Americans.

I take it then you don't think its a master plot to save all the proof (for those not actually paying attention) for the debate or September?

Gosh, it could be. I mean, theoretically. The problem is that Bush has consistently been blind to public sentiment, or the need to cultivate it... and I just don't see him as ever getting that straight. But there might be other very (Feith) clever (Ledeen) individuals on the periphery who have that covered to some extent, and Bush could certainly appreciate the strategic appeal, at least in part. But to be honest, I just don't know what the heck George Bush is capable of. He's something of an ink blot to most of the warbloggers, although Emperor Misha seems to have made up his mind, finally, that Bush is a chip off the same old wimp block as his da.

On the upside, though, I think there's a professional military cadre that capable of damn near anything they're tasked with doing. I've had a lot of those guys in my graduate classes for years, and they're smart as hell... as well as courageous. Eventually we'll see some of them in politics, which will be great.

Yeah I don't know what Kerry sees. I don't plan to vote for him, but if he's elected there's always a possibility he'll revert to his bedrock Americanism, rather than his grafted on Euro-ism. It's hard to tell what people will do once they get that executive mandate. I'm still hoping one or both candidates takes the nomination of a Veep seriously, though. Cheney's big detriment isn't his health or his ties to big business/oil, as many claim. It's his grotesque lack of imagination. He's almost a freak in that regard. It's a serious failing in a President.

I dunno. Hoping for the best. Things could be a lot worse, huh?

Misha surprised me (and I told him) when he said Bush = Kerry. I think Kerry is convinced of the superiority of the European mindset which includes the subordination of US interests to international ones at the UN. Things could be a lot worse and may get so. A free Iraq does pull things in the right direction for the long term. Its the short term that worries me.

I believe President Bush knows and realizes the historically anti-GOP, anti-Right LeftMedias are NOT for him, the GOP-Right. nor now even for America no matter what he, or America, does!
The anti-Bush and anti-US LeftMedias is more akin to COLD WAR-era IZVESTIA, PRAVDA, and Commie STATE TELEVISION! As per all pragmatic models or interpretations of Clintonian CENTRISM, each and every American, regardless iff Republican, DemLib, or Non-ALigned, are now versions of the GOP and the American Right WHILE ALSO BEING COMMUNIST AND LEFT-BASED SOCIALIST AT THE SAME TIME. The Clinton underpremise is that mainstream or ordinary, MidWest America is already. majorily or predominantly, LEFT-BASED COMMUNIST ANDOR LEFT-BASED SOCIALIST, with the GOP-Right either evolved from/into, is controlled by, or exists unique and minorially from the majority or controlling Leftism-Socialism-Communism! SEE BILL CLINTON'S ANTI-USA "BIG BOY" SPEECH/REMARKS, WHERE AMERICA AND AMERICANS MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE DAY WHEN AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE 'BIG BOY' ON THE [WORLD GEOPOLITICAL] BLOCK, ALTHOUGH CLINTON NEVER SPECIFIES OR DESCRIBES THE WHY AND HOW AMERICA DETERIORATES OR LOSES POWER! If one
accepts that Radical Islam/Islamist Terror = FAITH-BASED DESPOTIC SOCIALISTS, aka THEOCRATIC SOCIALISTS, aka EMPIRE-ISTS or FAITH-BASED DESPOTIC GLOBALISTS, and iff one also
believes that the Clintons lead or controls the US Democratic Party and American Left, then one must also accept that the Clinton Communist agenda = Democrat-Liberal-Left agenda [election or not] = Liberal Democrat Kerry agenda, et al. = Radical Islam = STATE- AND WORLD ANTI-AMERICA/ANTI-AMERICAN AGENDA = AMERICA MUST. MUST "FAIL", NATIONALLY AS WELL AS GEOPOLITICALLY, AND "FAIL" IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SEVERELY HARM OR DESTROY AMERICA'S INTERESTS, POWER, AND CREDIBILITY! Its very possible than Radical Islam is nothing more than politically correct/deniable MERCENARIES-PROXIES for America's Cold War Communist enemies - Muslim societies have a long, long real history of MERCENARISM, i.e. WAR BY SUBSTITUTE-PROXY-SURROGATE, in addition to contemporary post-modern Islamism having insufficient milpol or economic power to defeat hyperpower America and the West BY ITSELF! I no doubts the Failed Left wants America and its Limited-level VOLUNTEER ARMY to become bogged in DESTABILIZING, MULTI-REGION, CONVENTIONAL OR LIMITED [TACTICAL/BATTLEFIELD] NUCLEAR, LIMITED WARS, NEW "VIETNAMS" WHERE ASYMMETRIC, ARMED, "HIT-AND-RUN" INSURGENCY OR GUERILLA ACTIONS IS THE WILFUL AND PREFERRED METHOD OF OFFSETTING INTEGRATED AMERICAN MILITARY AND TECH "BATTLESPACE" DOMINANCE! Armed insurgency or Guerilla Warfare or Popular Warfare, as a combat method allows the fighting manpower and domestic societies of weak nations a better or higher probability of direct or indirect SURVIVAL against any superior enemy force, society-culture, or nation-state AND, as was during the original US-Viet conflict, also involves APPLYING NON-LOCAL/REGIONAL, INTERNATIONAL MILITARY ANDOR DIPLOMATIC PRESSURES AGAINST THE SUPERIOR FOE, AND THUS FORCING, CAUSING, OR INDUCING THE SUPERIOR FOE TO CHANGE HIS MIND OR STRATEGEMS! In short, I thus strongly believe that Iraq's ongoing anti-American insurgency, however popular or limited, was PRE-PLANNED BY SADDAM IN COLLUSION WITH ANTI-AMERICANISTS. Saddam is fighting the Americans and our Coalition, JUST NOT BY HIMSELF, NOR ONLY FROM WITHIN IRAQ OR THE ME, NOR ONLY FROM OUTSIDE AMERICA PROPER! I have no doubts that the Communist Clintons, their Anti-AMerican American cabal, and International/World Anti-American agendists will do anything and everything they can to ensure SADDAM GETS OFF, I.E. ISN'T EXECUTED, SUFFERS ONLY LIGHT-TO-MEDIUM IMPRISONMENT, AND ABOVE ALL IS ABLE TO RETURN TO IRAQ, JUST TO SPITE AND DEGRADE BUSH AND AMERICA! I believe Bush's method is CORRECT as to NOT informing Americans we are at war or calling for any formal declaration of war - I believe he realizes 9-11 and Radical Islam is about INVISBLE, DESPERATE COMMUNISM bent on conquering America and the West WITHOUT RESORT TO MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE NUCLEAR WARFARE, and I believe he realizes as I do that if America is NOT conquered in peacetime, ideally NLT 2015-2020,THAT THE FAILED LEFT IS DELUSIONAL ENOUGH, DESPERATE ENOUGH, AND POWER-MANIC ENOUGH TO RISK OR FINALLY RESORT TO DE FACTO MAD GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR, AFTER 2015/2020 AND ANY FAILURE BY THE AMERICAN CLINTONS AND CLINTON LEFT! Post-Cold War, and post-"Clinton 90's", do youse really want Americans to learn the end of the Cold War has only resulted in a HIGHER AND NEAR-TERM RISK OF ACTUAL GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR, TO LEARN THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF JEFFERSON AND JACKSON, FDR AND TRUMAN, LBJ AND KENNEDY, HAS BECOME A PATHETIC, PSYCHOTIC, MALICIOUS, WAR- AND CONSPIRACY-MINDED POWER-MAD PARTY OF MARX AND COMMUNISM, A PARTY OF DE FACTO TRAITORS HELL=BENT ON KILLING AMERICA NOW, NOT TOMORROW! If Bush declares war, the Failed Left will only claim war doesn't exist or isn't what is claimed; if he doesn't declare war, the Failed Left will argue war does indeed exist and why isn't the GOP doing something, like attacking IRAN AND NORTH KOREA - NOW, NOT LATER! WIth dialectic-, alterior-, and political correctness minded, secular Lefties, ITS NO SIN TO WORK, COVERTLY OR OVERTLY, BOTH FOR ANDOR AGAINST YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN INTERESTS, IF IT MEANS VICTORY OR A CONTROLLING ADVANTAGE OVER YOUR ENEMIES! AND TO ALWAYS PROCLAIM OR ADMIT TO VICTORY AND SUCCESS, NOT AND NEVER TO ANY DEFEAT OR FAILURE, EVEN IF IN FACT YOU LOSE OR LOST! ITS OKAY TO STAB OR HURT YOURSELF, EVEN UNTO NEAR-DEATH AS LONG AS ITS YOUR ENEMIES THAT FINALLY DIES, OR DIES FIRST, NOT YOU - you know, Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Lefty secular ethics!

BTW, for Billary Clintonian pre-Communist AMerica is no different that RUSSIA in having a COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED, SOCIALIST, "FASCIST-RIGHTIST-NATIONALIST" GOVERNMENT AND STATE. In ClintonWorld, only three types of ULTRA-LEFT SOCIALISTS. i.e. COMMUNISTS, exist in Socialist America - [PALEO]CONSERVATIVES, i.e. TRADITIONAL REGULATORY "RIGHTISTS" OR "CENTRISTS" SOCIALISTS, aka FEDERALISTS and TRADITIONAL "COMMUNISTS" or STALINISTS; NEW CONSERVATIVE SOCIALISTS or NEOCONS, aka MODERNISTS, INTERNATIONAL/GLOBALIST SOCIALISTS; and "LIBERAL" SOCIALISTS, aka DE-REGULATORS, MINIMALIST-, OR REFORMIST SOCIALISTS! America's traditional "two-party", Democrat vs Republican political establishment is now a LEFTIST/COMMUNIST-RECOGNIZING "ONE PARTY, TWO TITLES" "UNITARIAN ANTI-UNITARIAN" UNITARY NATIONAL, SOON TO BE GLOBAL OR EMPIRIC, ESTABLISHMENT, AT LEAST UNTIL THE DAY AMERICA AND THE USA FORMALLY BECOMES COMMUNIST AMERIKA AND THE USSA. A MERE SOCIALIST WORLD STATE AMONGST OTHER ANTI-SOVEREIGN, SOCIALIST, WORLD STATES OR GLOBAL "REPUBLICS"!