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| Vanden Heuvel to Bill Kristol: Enlist In The Iraqi Army |
| 2014-06-30 |
| I was going to comment a tiny bit on Vanden Heuvel's silliness, but things got out of hand. By Chris Covert Rantburg.com The left are trying to shut down discussion on Iraq falling to an Islamist enemy, by telling media views that the war in Iraq is a mess, and a sinkhole, begun by George W. Bush and his advisers. I won't argue the point that Iraq at the very outset was an expensive mess, improved somewhat by the efforts of George W Bush, but eventually, whatever improvements which did take hold were thrown away by Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton. I will argue that the moment Saddam Hussein's air defense grid lit up American aircraft, the ceasefire that ended the first Gulf War was no longer valid, and, chemical weapons or not, liberating Iraq was the next best option in a slate of terrible options. And make no mistake, despite all the protestations by the left to the contrary, America liberated Iraq. We have been watching for nearly 18 months as the security situation worsened with the same kind of sectarian violence that Bush tempered in 2007. Constantly pointing it out in this tiny venue would have done very little to help the matter, but in the pages of Rantburg, this is what we did, constantly, watching as the bumbling, stumbling boobs ran our nation's foreign policy, emphasizing gay rights over security. So, what little security that Iraq had is being destroyed by a hostile force clumsily helped along by a flatfooted, clownish, leftist American government, which thinks that leaving the field of battle without a victory is the same as victory. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, a down to the bone leftist publisher of the Nation wants to shut down discussion of options on Iraq using the old antiwar counter that the "old men" who want to send young men to war should themselves first become soldiers. Kristol never enlisted, nor did former vice president Richard Cheney nor a galaxy of others who wanted the war in Iraq prosecuted properly; who did not want Iraq to be a sinkhole for American resources. So by doing nothing about Iraq as it is being destroyed by an Al Qaeda affiliated Islamic enemy, the left and Barak Obama are about to take the sinkhole that is Iraq and cemented it forever into an enemy state that, like the Islamic republic of Iran, will remain under the political protection of the American left as a constant reminder of the dangers of doing nothing about hostile enemies. One of the main reasons why an American politician constitutionally has sway over the nation's military strength is that the founders knew that a military class may not have the same stakes in war that a political party or the president could have. Braying like a jackass that only military people should have a say in security policy is as an unhelpful notion as the one which left Iraq to fend for itself. And you can see where that thought has gotten the nation. I hope Vanden Heuvel enjoys the photos of pogroms we will see over the ensuing weeks as her erstwhile allies in Iraq enjoy committing them. Loads. Chris Covert writes on 2nd Amendment issues for Rantburg.com He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Katrina is a red-diaper baby from long ago. If she didn't have commmunist support, inherited, foreign and domestic, she'd be peddling her skanky body on the street |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-06-30 22:39 |
| #2 "...the old antiwar counter that the "old men" who want to send young men to war should themselves first become soldiers." Cause 'women' like Ms Heuvel somehow have never found it fitting since the advent of the 19th Amendment to be in the front lines like all those (often drafted*) troglodyte males have been for nearly a hundred years. * since the inception of the old republic males have been by definition members of the federal militia (see-Militia Act of 1792 to USC Title 10, para 311 Militia), so that along with the franchise (ie vote), they also carried the obligation of service which included the notion of giving of that 'last full measure of devotion'. If you want to shut down the argument then be prepared to be called on that very point Ms. As the Instaprof posted - here is male privilege. /rant off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-30 10:27 |
| #1 Leftest to the bone. Grossly understated, but accurate nonetheless. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-30 03:37 |
