Kori Schake, a senior policy adviser to John McCain said last week that Senator Obama was not listening the commanders on the ground in Iraq and that all of them have stated that Iraq is the central front in the war. In addition, Al Qaeda has said it is.
Well, golly shucks, Kori, let's please start listening to Al Qaeda for our foreign policy direction. Did it ever occur to you, Senator McCain or any of the other numskulls that support the occupation of Iraq that they want to distract us there while they quietly build up forces in Pakistan? Sheesh....
In actuality, no one in the McCain campaign (or most on the right) are listening to our armed forces. The Pentagon has been saying for the last year that Al Qaeda in Iraq is permanently crippled and all but vanquished. And Ms. Schake's comments came two hours after my new hero, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that additional troops were needed in Afghanistan, lamenting the fact that they were tied down in Iraq.
All of this after a huge spike in causalities in Afghanistan. Are people on the right so bent on being "right" that they can't admit that something has to change-and change now-before another serious attack?
Apparently so.
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It's refreshing to see someone like Adm Mullen speaking out about the best strategy for our country right now. I suppose it's only a matter of time before the right starts ripping into him and calling him a traitor.
Just out of curiosity, why is that when the left calls General Patraeus General Betray Us, that's bad but when the right rips guys like Welke and Clark, that's OK because....why again?
Because the right doesn't allow for diverse opinions. There is one way and only one way, in this case Bush's way. They like to keep things simple because complexity, for whatever reason, frightens the right and so they deal in either-ors.
Then why don't you post a complex idea for the rest of us to read sometime tom instead of your specialty which is simple one-liners.
In her eagerness to score points against Obama, Kori Schake comments show so little thought that she even enlists Al Qaeda in her efforts. Why is it that McCain and his supposedly smart advisors shoot from the lip?
All too true, anon. Tom, I don't think you are required to answer SW, so my advice to you is to give him another one liner.
For both of Bush's terms, we have operated under a very shallow and terribly narrow minded view of the world. Any deviation from that view is met with a legion of paid off lackeys screaming at their top of their lungs, saying nothing even remotely helpful, about what is and what is not important.
It has become increasingly obvious to me that the American people are starting to move away from this bile and into a hopefully more thoughtful way of living. I could be wrong but I am hopeful. We'll see.
Nice blog, btw. I should tell you that it has become quite popular amongst many women I know.
I’m sorry, but I have to agree w/ Annie on this one, SW. One articulate thought and Tom's fragile mind may very likely fly into a psychotic episode.
You're right justdave. Tasking someone who says "They like to keep things simple because complexity, for whatever reason, frightens the right" to post something halfway complex sometime on any issue is asking too much apparantly.
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