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Home Front: Politix
Surber: Four words no conservative says
2022-12-31
Jeffrey Jeb Nadaner was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Trump Administration. He is now a lobbyist in Washington. I am sure he believes he is a conservative. But his latest offering at American Greatness shows he is just a muddled liberal thinker.
Lots of muddled thinkers in the world, and many of them find platforms from which to shout it all at the rest of us.
He wrote, "Some nationally minded conservatives regard U.S. military aid to Ukraine as yet another internationalist D.C. foreign policy crusade conducted at the expense of taxpayers and potentially American lives.

"A closer look suggests that if pursued properly, well-targeted military and intelligence aid to Ukraine can directly serve U.S. interests and security in the best traditions of American realism and restraint.

"One need not be a NeverTrumper, Russiagate obsessive, or nostalgist for 1990s globaloney to see that the conquest of a major central European country by Putin damages the United States. Stopping it in ways that make future invasions less likely, whether by Russia or China—and doing so without direct U.S. military intervention—is well worth the investment, albeit with critical caveats."

I laughed as I read that. He said, "well-targeted military and intelligence aid to Ukraine can directly serve U.S. interests and security in the best traditions of American realism and restraint."

Yes and we can run our cars on unicorn farts and fairy dust. There is no such thing as well-targeted military aid. Ukraine is a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization. Think of Zelensky as Sonny Corleone. (Hey, James Caan was 5-foot-9 just like Zelensky.)

But I knew the piece was garbage because the headline used the four words no conservative says:

The conservative case for

(The actual headline was, "A National Conservative Case for Arming Ukraine." Close enough.)

That is how non-conservatives frame liberal ideas for the gullible. The four words preface a specious argument for a liberal cause.

The tactic is decades old and still as dishonest as Joe Biden.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by:badanov

#8  I think it is possible to do targeted military aid. I remember that we provided Patriot batteries to Israel during Desert Storm. This is as targeted as liberty call in Rio.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-31 20:05  

#7  If Elenskyyy is 5-9 I'm Shaquille O'Neal.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-12-31 18:06  

#6  This is akin to the elitist 'Coffee House' liberals sneering at their populist 'Beer Hall' tradesmen brethren. Are these so-called 'conservatives' really conservatives or just elitists?
Posted by: magpie   2022-12-31 10:45  

#5  /\ Or checking for electrical outlets.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-31 09:18  

#4  I prefer to get where I'm going without having to check every little nuance of the weather. Call me a crank...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-31 09:07  

#3  "I prefer an EV"

How Did EVs Handle America's Arctic Blast?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-31 09:02  

#2  "Biden won the election"
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-12-31 08:02  

#1  "That's not who we are" will be the epitaph on the tombstone of the current incarnation of the "conservative movement."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-31 06:06  

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