Friday, May 27, 2005
Lesson: Legitimacy Matters
A new report from the Project on Defense Alternatives begins to catalog the ways in which Iraqi public opinion towards U.S. occupation prevents victory over the insurgency.
Remember when John Kerry lost the election in part due to his call for a "Global test" for U.S. foreign policy?
In the campaign, Bushites depicted Kerry's global test as a craven appeal to international opinion.
But as with the notion that W shanked the war on terror by redeploying troops from Tora Bora to Iraq and letting bin Laden slip, Kerry turns out to be right again.
Legitimacy matters. It matters when people hate and do not trust you. It constrains your ability to act in the national interest.
HEY "W" YOU STUPID LOAF OF BREAD: Stop wearing the world's hate like a badge of honor, and start to think seriously about treating people's perception of our callous greed as more than just a public relations problem.
We need an exit strategy in Iraq that includes a declaration of no permanent military bases, not just for its own sake, but because such a declaration will undermine the public sympathy on which the insurgency depends.
There is no better PR than doing the right thing. You will learn this lesson you stupid loaf of bread, or you will be unable to defeat terrorism anywhere, and subject the rest of us to global hate and periodic conventional and unconventional attacks in an apocalyptic my-god-is-bigger-than-your-god culture clash.
Man, you are one stupid loaf of bread.
Remember when John Kerry lost the election in part due to his call for a "Global test" for U.S. foreign policy?
In the campaign, Bushites depicted Kerry's global test as a craven appeal to international opinion.
But as with the notion that W shanked the war on terror by redeploying troops from Tora Bora to Iraq and letting bin Laden slip, Kerry turns out to be right again.
Legitimacy matters. It matters when people hate and do not trust you. It constrains your ability to act in the national interest.
HEY "W" YOU STUPID LOAF OF BREAD: Stop wearing the world's hate like a badge of honor, and start to think seriously about treating people's perception of our callous greed as more than just a public relations problem.
We need an exit strategy in Iraq that includes a declaration of no permanent military bases, not just for its own sake, but because such a declaration will undermine the public sympathy on which the insurgency depends.
There is no better PR than doing the right thing. You will learn this lesson you stupid loaf of bread, or you will be unable to defeat terrorism anywhere, and subject the rest of us to global hate and periodic conventional and unconventional attacks in an apocalyptic my-god-is-bigger-than-your-god culture clash.
Man, you are one stupid loaf of bread.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
The upshot of moderate compromise on judicial appointments
Republicans:
WE WILL ONLY DESTROY THE FILIBUSTER UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES
Democrats:
WE WILL ONLY FILIBUSTER UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Net Gain: 3 RIGHT WING JUSTICES
Incremental advance of movement conservatism: PRICELESS
I don't see how this is a winner for Democrats.
Dobson crows behind crocodile tears.
WE WILL ONLY DESTROY THE FILIBUSTER UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES
Democrats:
WE WILL ONLY FILIBUSTER UNDER EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Net Gain: 3 RIGHT WING JUSTICES
Incremental advance of movement conservatism: PRICELESS
I don't see how this is a winner for Democrats.
Dobson crows behind crocodile tears.
8 more soldiers killed for Chimpy's folly
Dammit, why don't the media ever report any good war news, like the heroic death of Pat Tillman?
Oh, that was a lie too? Ah.
Oh, that was a lie too? Ah.
