05.25.09
How much longer do we proceed with what isn’t working?
You’re not surprised, are you? North Korea has conducted another underground nuclear test, this one with a Hiroshima-sized impact.
This is what happens in a world so devoid of resolve that even the basic survival instinct is badly eroded.
Will TCM, the IAEA and the UN Security Council please shut up about sanctions and further isolation? Will the world’s pundits please shut up about “why they did it” and internal power struggles and pointy-headed little scenarios about what happens from here?
Our enemies smell blood, period. It’s to be expected when six-party talks are still treated as a viable option, when Leon Panetta of the CIA goes to Israel to sternly warn that nation not to take out Iran’s nuke program, when TCM accepts a book of West-hatred from Hugo Chavez, when the MSM can’t bring itself to put the obvious main point of a story about New York jihadist plotters of synagogue bombings – their religion – until paragraph number ten.
They smell blood in far-flung corners of the world, such as the international waters of the Gulf of Aden, into which Iranian warships have moved.
This has never been about posturing or swagger or copping an attitude or jockeying for political gain. When the great heralds of our age, such as Dick Cheney and John Bolton, speak plainly about danger and history and human nature and what we must not do and what we may have to do, they are not concerned with the “brand” of the party they happen to belong to. They are not concerned with cronyism-level interests. They certainly aren’t consumed with the utopian countercultural vision of the Freedom-Haters who currently hold our fate in their hands.
The longer you wait to face evil, the greater the chances are that you will have to face ever-more severe discomfort in the defense of what you value. How much pain are we interested in taking on?
Mr.Dings said,
May 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I think this will get everybody “moving” if that is what you want. Looks like the major and even minor “powers” are united in condemning it.
We’ll clearly take care of business there, whether Cheney and Bolton are in the picture, or not, and, of course they’re not. But, as citizens, they can have their say.
In September 2004, Al Gore , the cautious campaigner, transformed into a Bush basher, faulting Cheney for “sleazy and despicable” criticism of the Democrats. A Bush White House spokesman dismissively responded: “Consider the source.” The tables have turned. At the White House on Friday, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said it appears that Cheney’s latest speech was an extension of the same argument that occurred “inside these walls” for many years during the administration in which he served for eight years.
Mr.Dings said,
May 25, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Source for above quote is: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-05-23-cheney_N.htm
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
May 25, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Of course he’s not going to go away. He knows we’re in grave danger and that it must be pointed out.
Mr. Dings said,
May 26, 2009 at 10:45 am
That is where you are deluded. It is obvious we are in grave danger. We tried the Cheney preemptive way in Iraq and it did anything but work the way it was supposed to, though you hang onto a surge implemented much too late. You guys think you’re the only ones with balls. More like marbles. In your heads. And to hear Rush wailing that Cheney is getting the new administration to change direction.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
May 26, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Oh, so Baghdad and Kirkuk and Fallujah and Mosul aren’t any freer than they were ten years ago or safer than they were three years ago?
Rush is absolutely correct that Cheney is having an effect on TCM’s policy direction.