There But For The Grace Of God....
There's an old Beatles song entitled Can You Imagine? Or at least I think there is; maybe it's just Imagine. Anyway, it goes through the standard lib/pacifist laundry list that any faithful reader of this space is already nauseatingly familiar with.
The following quote provides the needed context:
That's the left-wing answer to everything: talk. And talk. And talk. And talk. Then give the bad guys everything they want and leave. Running up a white flag from the outset would be so much quicker. Libs can't even surrender efficiently, it would seem.
Mr. French's summit would indeed "stabilize" Iraq in the sense that it would lubricate our retreat and turn the country over to Zarqawi and the mullahs. As long as we (and the Iraqis) are resisting them, "the land between the rivers" will remain "unstable," dontcha know. Or did, since the elected Iraqi government is in place and the "insurgency" is strategically dead, its only lifeline idiots like John Kerry.
Really it's most reminiscent of the endless rhetorical circle-jerk that is the attempt to diplomatically de-nuke the Iranians, which the Bush Administration has inexplicably indulged in most Kerryesque fashion. Which, of course, is simply paving the way for the mullahs to get their nukes and use them to plunge the world into a nuclear conflagration.
I was going end with a "Can you imagine where we'd be but for sixty thousand votes in Ohio?" but sadly, imagination really isn't necessary anymore.
No wonder I've been so lazy at getting back to this topic.
UPDATE: Here's a useful primer on left-wing mythology about Iraq.
The following quote provides the needed context:
Senator John Kerry is calling for an international summit to help stabilize Iraq and end the insurgency.
The Democrat says it's "long overdue" for the Congress that shares some of the responsibility for authorizing the war to help get the U.S. out....
Over the weekend, Iraq swore in a permanent government and a new prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki.
Kerry says the summit should include representatives of warring factions in Iraq, as well as Europeans, Iranians, Syrians and other Middle Eastern players. [emphasis added]
That's the left-wing answer to everything: talk. And talk. And talk. And talk. Then give the bad guys everything they want and leave. Running up a white flag from the outset would be so much quicker. Libs can't even surrender efficiently, it would seem.
Mr. French's summit would indeed "stabilize" Iraq in the sense that it would lubricate our retreat and turn the country over to Zarqawi and the mullahs. As long as we (and the Iraqis) are resisting them, "the land between the rivers" will remain "unstable," dontcha know. Or did, since the elected Iraqi government is in place and the "insurgency" is strategically dead, its only lifeline idiots like John Kerry.
Really it's most reminiscent of the endless rhetorical circle-jerk that is the attempt to diplomatically de-nuke the Iranians, which the Bush Administration has inexplicably indulged in most Kerryesque fashion. Which, of course, is simply paving the way for the mullahs to get their nukes and use them to plunge the world into a nuclear conflagration.
I was going end with a "Can you imagine where we'd be but for sixty thousand votes in Ohio?" but sadly, imagination really isn't necessary anymore.
No wonder I've been so lazy at getting back to this topic.
UPDATE: Here's a useful primer on left-wing mythology about Iraq.
posted by JASmius at 9:11 AM
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