Posted by
Doctor Poddy on Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:41:03 PM
Thanks to the election, where the win by conservative Democrats was
interpreted by Islamofascists as a victory, we are seeing Syria taking
over Lebanon via their friends in Hezbollah.
So the headlines in the WAPO? About a memo (leaked) saying
Rumsfeld ...well, the implication is that he thought Iraq was a mistake.
And then one on
"Gulf war syndrome"...you know, from Gulf War one? The one that the Clinton administrations' bureaucrats said didn't exist?
Then we read
"friendly fire" incidents were
mishandled. Yup. All those friendly fire stuff are being spun too. Of
course, as Stonewall Jackson could tell you, wars run by good Democrats
like Jefferson Davis would NEVER allow anyone be killed by friendly
fire.
And finally, a whole bunch of editorials on why Bush is the worst president in the world.
We have
Douglas Brinkley at Tulane: " When 9/11 happened, Bush did too much, attacking the wrong country at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.".
Well, some would say that we should have attacked Iran, and the UN
should have voted to punish Saddam Hussein by sending troops into
removing him for his breaking the peace treaties of 1991, but never
mind. When France and Russia are taking Oil for food bribes and selling
weapons to Saddam and Nuclear facilities to the Mullahs, there are no
ways that the UN would do that. But the problem of Islamofascism is not
mentioned in the essay.
Then we have
Eric Foner from
Colombia who claims Bush is the worst president because he has rolled
back the rule of law so badly that the courts are against him.
Specifically, he cites Gitmo, where people are imprisoned without trial
complete with lawyers and the ability to see the names of those
testifying against them.
His heroes Lincoln and FDR would never do such things...
Except, of course, the Lincoln didn't supend "habeas corpus" for
foreigners who voluntarily worked with America's enemies. He suspended
habeas corpus for all.
And FDR didn't just "imprison" young men associated with people who are
sworn to kill Americans, he imprisoned men, women and children because
their Japanes ethnicity implied they might cooperate with America's
enemies. And when German Saboteurs entered the USA, they were not
imprisoned in a clean camp, but quickly and quietly tried and executed.
As for the courts "rebukes of Bush's policies", one wonders how a
professor is seemingly unaware that the Supreme Court reveresed many of
FDR's policies, and that he attempted to pack the courts in response,
something that was so against the constitution that he failed despite
his popularity.
Only
Vincent Cannato
is allowed to argue that "wait and see" might be a better way to judge
things. Ironically, even he does not point out that it is mainly due to
a MSM that overblows the negative and ignores the positive that is
encouraging the enemies of a free Iraq to push on.
Would the situation in Iraq be a "black" if CNN International did not
go out of it's way to hire people with upper class British accents who
smirk and lift their eyebrows as if to ridicule anything good about
America? Those of us overseas are being told day after day that Bush is
incompetent.
The bad thing is that the criticism is not helping the war.
You wouldn't know it from Professor Fone, but Lincoln was called a
baboon and his wife a traitor. There were draft riots in New York City,
and large financial scandals. What saved Lincoln's reputation was that
his idea, that the republic was worth saving, won the day.
Back in the 1920's, there was something called a "Red Scare". If you
read the "historians" now, you would think it was overblown, like
McCarthyism. But the strange thing is that the idea behind these bomb
throwers spread, mainly because the elites of England thought war was
wrong and thought that socialism was a good idea.
And this idea, that the Reds were no danger, resulted in both Churchill
and FDR underestimating the duplicity of Stalin during World War II,
leading to both the takeover of Eastern Europe and various Asian wars.
The legacy of elites who failed to see the evil in communism and
fascism has left us shaking our heads not only at the 40 million killed
in World War II, which might have been prevented if Churchill had been
listened to in 1932, but the 100 million who were killed in the name of
communism because no one had the forsight to see the ideological fellow
travelers of the bomb throwers of the Red Scare would continue to
escalate their atrocities when in power.
One wonders if all these historians, including Professor Cannato, would
like to ponder a question: What if Bush is right, that there is a
growing danger, that WMD capabilities in unstable oil rich
dictatorships are open to push the dangerous idea of a Caliphate, and
that only by establishing Democracy can that idea be reversed?
Unlike the esteemed professors, I have lived thourgh history, and recognize evil exists.
One hopes that 100 years from now, the world will not look back on the
aggression of the Caliphate and the Chinese-Persian nuclear war that
devestated the landmass of Eurasia as the legacy of our elites.