Friday, January 25, 2008

WHERE HAS THIS GUY BEEN?

Writing in The Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch frets about the partisan divide over the Iraq War. His subtitle is "Our inevitable withdrawal from Iraq could poison American politics for a generation."

NEWSFLASH FOR RAUCH: It already has poisoned it for a generation. If you think the aftereffects of Vietnam were bad, they will seem mild compared to what happens when this Fiasco is finally over.

Rauch betrays an ignorance of what the wingnuts are thinking:
We can assume that if the Iraq War ends badly, some Republican hard- liners, amplified by conservative talk radio, will accuse the Democrats of perfidy.

THEY ALREADY ARE, MR. RAUCH. Try listening to talk radio or reading Free Republic.

Rauch then looks to an almost extinct species for a better outcome:

Republican hard-liners, of course, might prefer demagoguery. But grown-up Republicans would recognize that withdrawal is inevitable

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

One big poisoner-AJ Strata who still reductio absurdia-s the war to a boast about al Qaeda being defeated --until they get in a good hit, then it's we gotta stay until they are or we'll be fightin' em in northern Va.)

As for the Iraqis, they love us! They're begging us to stay, all except a few evildoers. The Sunni "Awakening" people (those that ain't getting offed by AQ,) love us too and love the Shia government.Reconciliation
abounds.

America, you see, united all Iraq behind us in a lovefest, by simply killing and helping kill a few hundred "Al Qaeda" ferrigners.

The next Iraqi government is our staunch ally --he's already pegged it in the America-Israel orbit against whoever the neocons call "Islamofascists"...southern Iraq with newly veiled women and Shia militias running rampant-never mentioned--Hear no evil-mention no evil- this is Strata's strata-gy.

And the worst part is, Strata would have troops stay as long as McCain would, even while every myth he propagated was proven
untrue.

Steve J. said...

Strata is a real piece of work. I've been to his site a few times and the best I can say is that he better than the worst Freeper.

Anonymous said...

You'll never read even vague allusions to pieces like this on Strata's site.


IRAQ: 'US the Biggest Producer of Terror'
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*

BAQUBA, Jan 25 (IPS) - Broken promises have brought a dramatic increase in anti-U.S. sentiment across the capital city of Iraq's Diyala province.

Many people in Baquba, capital of Diyala 40 km northeast of Baghdad, had supported U.S. forces when they ousted former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But failed reconstruction projects and muddled policies mean the U.S. has lost that support.