Letters to the Editor
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Paglia, again?
Straight to letters, that's where I go upon seeing another Paglia article, much more entertaining, and I don't get the feeling the writers are smirking (you know that special chimp smirk) the whole time they're writing.
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We are the Losers This Time Around
It's tough being a loser yet this is precisely what we are. We lost and they won. Just like in Vietnam.
We wore the black hat this time around, like in Vietnam. We were the bad guys. We were the torturers. Is everybody proud of supporting torture? I'm not.
I prefer to be the good guys. Our leader, B2, and Dog Chain, turned us into the bad guys. We should all be ashamed.
Also, we have now officially killed more civilians than Saddam did. I love the way so many people can just casually toss aside these deaths as collateral damage. Dear reader, try and imagine an anonymous jet dropping a bomb on your house and killing the person you love most in this world, the person you will really miss, while you survive. Then imagine the guy in the airplane and the people who support him just casually going "oops, we missed that time". That's what we've been doing day in and day out while we eat our dinners and debate the issue. It is nauseating.
Joshua
"You cannot make a man
by standing a sheep on its hind legs.
But by standing a flock of sheep in that position
you can make a crowd of men."
Max Beerbohm
From the novel Zuleika Dobson
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Camille Can Write for US Anyday...
Dear Camille,
Don't take this abuse! Come write for us. Any one of us will gladly give you a front page forum. And you won't get all the grief you get here at Salon.
http://www.rightwingnews.com
http://www.blogsforbush.com
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
http://michellemalkin.com
We LOVE YOU!
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Oh no.
I do not underestimate "the enemy." Indeed, I want us to bring to bear all of our weapons.
Diplomacy. Tact. Grace. Leadership. Freedom. Fairness. Mercy. Justice. Compassion. And, yes, we've proven we have Strength.
We've barely scratched the surface of the possibilities. All we care is that certain holding companies get their share of loot.
Think of what could have happened if we spent $500,000,000 on putting our money where our mouth is and living the promise that is America. Instead we feed hogs. That's the reality, not the promise.
And Ms Paglia is only a symptom. A bug. A parasite.
Salon. Stop this.
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Your Sure Right Nice Pretty Lady
Camille,
James Randall said "here is what you do not understand: Iraq is but one battle in the 60-plus-year ideological struggle we call "the war on terror."
How right he was - you don’t get it. He is talking about the War on Terror - Islamofacist and says Iraq is one battle in the 60 year WOT. Not the Cold War - read what he said!
You don't understand that these terrorits are going to fight keep fighting us until we defeat them or they are dead (they ARE suicide bombers you know).
You Don't Get ITTTTT!!!!! You are right that other dems don't get it, but this is real! They are beheading people, baking sons to terrorize families, these people are evil and if we back off, they will be in YOUR backyard and mine soon. Wake UP!!!!!!! 3,000 dead on 9/11, 4,000 fighting them - and your team thinks the War on Terror is a bumper sticker? You people are either idiots or traitors, at worst both!
When President Bush said "you are either with US or against us" - he meant FREE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, not just the US. Just how dumb are you? He was speaking as the leader of the FREE world – ever heard of it?
If you really did love America, you would take off your crap colored glasses and see who the real enemy of the U.S. is, Islamofacist, not George W. Bush.
President Bush will be seen in historic terms as one of the great presidents and in my book, James Randall is a great American also.
With President Bush, he lives by the notion that "The buck stops here". With the Clintons the motto was "We didn't buck".
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If we leave you wrote:
“You say that if we don't stay and win in Iraq, we'll be back there in 10 years. I think you might well be correct. The Iraq chaos, which we instrumentally helped foment, will probably spread and destabilize the entire Middle East -- a momentum that has already begun. By removing that despicable autocrat, Saddam Hussein, we conveniently did Iran's work. There's no stopping the jockeying of power now -- Iran eyeing Iraq's Shiite territories; Turkey ready to smash the independence movement among Kurds (who have been playing the United States for a fool).
But next time around, we will hopefully have the support of other powers in the region, such as Saudi Arabia (a corruption-riddled regime with strong Bush ties), which can't afford the implosion of Iraq. Meanwhile, the massacre of our hapless soldiers, along with the waste of billions of our tax dollars, must stop. There is no clear way to define "victory" in this folly -- which tried to jump-start Western democracy in a country with none of our long traditions of civil law or free speech.
We need to rest our military and return our overextended National Guardsmen to their families. We must conserve our resources and rethink our global strategy against terrorism. Homeland security must be radically strengthened, above all at our ports. Emergency evacuation and relief plans for major cities such as New York are still pathetically rudimentary. We should take care of our own business before trying to run everyone else's. “
That timing seems just right as by then the nation will be tired of watching the Democrats talk and carry no stick. The new Republican administration will again do what must be done.
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Scaremongering 101
Iraq is but one battle in the 60-plus-year ideological struggle we call "the war on terror."
Which is total baloney.
Before 9/11 Bush mentioned "terrorism" exactly once and cut back Clinton's anti-terrorism programs besides. Pubs fought those programs tooth and nail in the '90's.
Bush didn't bother with "terrorism" until it became usable as a political tool. But now that the neocons have found themselves a boogeyman to scare Americans into letting Dubya do whatever he wants, and now that you've found yourselves a replacement for the Soviet Union/Cold War, you're going whole hog about it.
And going about it very badly, it would seem, but only if one supposes that the purpose of the "war on terrorism" is to reduce "terrorism". It's not. If anything, the way Bushites are going about it they're provoking it, not decreasing it, which is exactly what they want, precisely because they need that boogeyman.
Try a fresh propaganda lie. That one was discredited years ago.