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| Sleepwalking Into A Nightmare - Gingrich Transcript |
| 2007-12-11 |
| Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivered the following remarks to a Jewish National Fund meeting at the Selig Center I just want to talk to you from the heart for a few minutes and share with you where I think we are. I think it is very stark. I don't think it is yet desperate, but it is very stark. And if I had a title for today's talk, it would be sleepwalking into a nightmare. 'Cause that's what I think we're doing. I gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute Sept. 10 at which I gave an alternative history of the last six years, because the more I thought about how mich we're failing, the more I concluded you couldn't just nitpick individual places and talk about individual changes because it didn't capture the scale of the disaster. And I had been particularly impressed by a new book that came out called Troublesome Young Men, which is a study of the younger Conservatives who opposed appeasement in the 1930s and who took on Chamberlain. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 Part of the war we waged on the Soviet Union involved their natural gas supply because we wanted to cut off their hard currency. The Soviets were desperate to get better equipment for their pipeline. We managed to sell them through third parties very, very sophisticated American pipeline equipment, which they were thrilled to buy and thought they had pulled off a huge coup. Now we weren't playing fair. We did not tell them that the equipment was designed to blow up. One day in 1982, there was an explosion in Siberia so large that the initial reflection on the satellites looked like there was a tactical nuclear weapon. Wow! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-12-11 19:54 |
| #15 We have an administration whose policy is inadequate being opposed by a political left whose policy is worse Summed up nicely. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-12-11 16:22 |
| #14 Newt has some dirty laundry, but he is a patriot and a conservative, and he is not drinking the koolaid. I think we could get behind him and put the finger on Islam. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-12-11 14:29 |
| #13 Mr. Gingrich is not presidential material, as proved by the fact he isn't trying to run. But he certainly thinks well out loud. General Patton never became president, either, Enver Javirt840. Being very, very good in one area most certainly does not guarantee competence in another. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-12-11 13:37 |
| #12 Oh please. And Patton was an idiot. |
| Posted by: Enver Javirt8400 2007-12-11 13:20 |
| #11 One 'rod from God' would do the trick and they couldn't prove a thing. |
| Posted by: Total War 2007-12-11 13:14 |
| #10 I'm with Spot. |
| Posted by: KBK 2007-12-11 12:30 |
| #9 Ditto, the guy's sharp as a k-bar. Have always loved listening to Newt on H/C, Fox or whatever. He can dissect the problem down to the gnat's ass and articulate it so that even the dumbest drooler can understand. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-12-11 10:36 |
| #8 This is the best summary of the problem I have read in six years. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-12-11 09:52 |
| #7 Newt gets it. Unfortunately, he's one of only a few who do. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-12-11 09:32 |
| #6 Newt for editor of the New York Times. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-12-11 09:24 |
| #5 Newt is a great thinker, but was piss-poor leader as Speaker of the House. Implementation is not his strong suit and that's the main job of the President. |
| Posted by: Spot 2007-12-11 08:37 |
| #4 This point of view should be the starting point for the formulation of a grand strategy in the WOT. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-12-11 07:57 |
| #3 Yeah, he really beats the pants off of the other candidates. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-12-11 07:00 |
| #2 Publish it on 2 facing full pages of every newspaper in the country. Publish key quotes on billboards around the country. For months. Until some get a clue. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-12-11 06:56 |
| #1 Darn! Newt for president! |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2007-12-11 03:42 |