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2006-07-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-10 10:43|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Definition: "Cowboy Diplomacy"
Say what you mean, and mean what you say.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-10 11:14|| 2006-07-10 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 They mean, "consolidation phase" instead of "invasion phase".

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-10 11:18|| 2006-07-10 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Can you imagine how much of a problem the islamists would be now if Gore won in 2000 and/or Kerry in 2004?

Posted by Thomogum Ebbaiter3199 2006-07-10 11:25|| 2006-07-10 11:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Unfortunately, this article, seems to define it as 'going in with both guns blazing'.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-10 11:27|| 2006-07-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 The real problem is that Bush Administration, and the country, don't have the stomach to finish the Axis of Evil, now, when it can be done inexpensively. Instead, we'll pay later.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-10 11:27|| 2006-07-10 11:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Think how much more efficient it could have been NS, if the Clinton Administration hadn't punted in the first place. Think of how much cheaper all this would have been if Sunday School Carter had back the Shah in the 70s. The Shah was no kinder gentler type guy, but neither was Stalin with whom Franklin Roosevelt hung out. The whole prattle is about people wanting to avoid getting blood on their hands even though they know that basically nothing else really works. Their problem is that they drag the rest of us down with them.

Posted by Theresh Thrinenter5301 2006-07-10 12:00|| 2006-07-10 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Yup, it was obvious in '94. It was also obvious that we should have stayed out of the Balkans, but WC had to be a hero to his Euro buddies. And he had to send thos guys into Mogadishu without armor and then abandon the position instead of kicking ass. All in all, in the Jimmah Cahtah class of president.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-10 12:08|| 2006-07-10 12:08|| Front Page Top

#8 JC is WC without the "BJ."

Posted by JohnQC 2006-07-10 12:30|| 2006-07-10 12:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, since Time put "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy" on its cover, that's means we're in for a new period of Cowboy diplomacy.

Which is a good thing....

Posted by danking_70 2006-07-10 12:53|| 2006-07-10 12:53|| Front Page Top

#10 There hasn't been an intelligent analysis of international relations in the MSM since 9/11. These fags think their prattle has some bite to it, but it's meer fantasy. The cold war goes on, with China replacing USSR as the main opponent, and the absurd attempt to destroy civilization by mother Islam sheds blood far and wide. However, the world is still led by the USA. This will remain unless and until the socialists lefties are able to trip up our better intentions. The Islamist will bring about their bloody end before the Euroabia experiment bears fruit, and the advanced Oriental races will overtake the Norky hermit and embarrass China. Tomorrow's world will be two groups. One industrialized and engaged, and the other backward and isolated. Neither will be because of ~~oral sex~~ liberalism.

Posted by wxjames 2006-07-10 13:59|| 2006-07-10 13:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Scrappleface is up on this one.

Posted by Matt 2006-07-10 14:09|| 2006-07-10 14:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Off Topic.

But because of the reparations post above, I think I may need representation to get my share of the dough, lucre, bread, geld.

I need someone who is familiar with the folkways of the south and in particular maybe the weirdness of Napoleonic law.... hummmmmmm...

I would cut the lawyer enough for a quality toup.

:>

Posted by 6 2006-07-10 14:35|| 2006-07-10 14:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Wasn't it Time magazine that first coined the term "cowboy diplomacy" in referring to the Bush administration? That makes it easier. Just declare that your hated political opponent is something, then after a time, declare that he is no longer that something, having learned the error of his ways.

That's right up there with "Has he stopped beating his wife, yet?"

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-07-10 14:48|| 2006-07-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#14 That's right up there with "Has he stopped beating his wife, yet?"

Or the one they used in 2000: "Mr. Bush, when did you give up snorting Cocaine?"

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-07-10 14:52|| 2006-07-10 14:52|| Front Page Top

#15 Who reads Time anymore? News magazines are artifacts of a bygone age. Time, Newsweek, and their ilk have become leftist broadsheets where propagandists like Joe Klein can print their screeds.

Posted by RWV 2006-07-10 15:21|| 2006-07-10 15:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Does anyone other then Doctor and Dentist offices subscribe to Time / Newsweak / etc...?

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-10 15:43|| 2006-07-10 15:43|| Front Page Top

#17 End of "Cowboy Diplomacy" or beginning of "Elvis Diplomacy?"

Posted by anonymous2u 2006-07-10 15:44|| 2006-07-10 15:44|| Front Page Top

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