"The Enemy Will Follow Us Here"
The Coward-in-Chief has apparently revealed the strategy he will use in the November elections. He's going to say that if we back out in the middle east, the terrorists will follow us home. It's the same tired crap that he began with "They hate our freedom."
The Islamic radicals, whether the Coward-in-Chief wants to believe it or not, do not want anything we've got. They do not want our territory--although they want control over what they regard as their territory. They do not hate our freedom. They only hate our habit of trying to export every aspect of our culture, which they regard as thoroughly decadent. They simply want to be left alone. The western world has not, thus far, respected that desire. We've assisted repressive monarchies. We've failed to respect their religious sensibilities. We've permitted our businesses to move aggressively into the middle east.
These are things that Americans don't understand. No one does these things to the United States. If anyone did, Americans would hate it. Take our most egregious wrongs--the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm not going to argue that Saddam Hussein, the Baathists, and the Taliban were great people. They weren't. But they were operating in sovereign states, and whether we liked it or not, they were holding power within the cultural frameworks of those state. The United States stepped in. Now imagine this: some other nation with sufficient military force looks that the United States and concludes that it is headed by a corrupt regime that is bent on destabilizing the middle east. The leaders of this other power decide to attack the United States. Even those of us who hate the current United States regime would undoubtedly resist this insult to our national soverignty, and well we should.
All of this is part of the Coward-in-Chief's dumbed down, black and white view of reality. It led us into costly wars that have made us less safe than we were when he took office. We had better reject his party and any other candidates who think that United States policy in the middle east is going to succeed and promote a safer world.
The Islamic radicals, whether the Coward-in-Chief wants to believe it or not, do not want anything we've got. They do not want our territory--although they want control over what they regard as their territory. They do not hate our freedom. They only hate our habit of trying to export every aspect of our culture, which they regard as thoroughly decadent. They simply want to be left alone. The western world has not, thus far, respected that desire. We've assisted repressive monarchies. We've failed to respect their religious sensibilities. We've permitted our businesses to move aggressively into the middle east.
These are things that Americans don't understand. No one does these things to the United States. If anyone did, Americans would hate it. Take our most egregious wrongs--the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm not going to argue that Saddam Hussein, the Baathists, and the Taliban were great people. They weren't. But they were operating in sovereign states, and whether we liked it or not, they were holding power within the cultural frameworks of those state. The United States stepped in. Now imagine this: some other nation with sufficient military force looks that the United States and concludes that it is headed by a corrupt regime that is bent on destabilizing the middle east. The leaders of this other power decide to attack the United States. Even those of us who hate the current United States regime would undoubtedly resist this insult to our national soverignty, and well we should.
All of this is part of the Coward-in-Chief's dumbed down, black and white view of reality. It led us into costly wars that have made us less safe than we were when he took office. We had better reject his party and any other candidates who think that United States policy in the middle east is going to succeed and promote a safer world.
posted by amsterdr at 1:53 PM
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