Who's Letting Terrorists Dictate Policy?
In a long rant about Congressman Ron Paul's performance at the second GOP presidential debate, Jonah Goldberg somehow manages to type the following words without collapsing into a hypocrisy induced coma:
George W. Bush, September 5, 2006:
Good grief.
Even more annoying, [Ron] Paul seems to invest in bin Laden a certain strategic omnipotence and takes his word for everything. This is usually a leftwing trope. The terrorists are “delighted” we’re in Iraq, he claims, because Osama bin Laden says so. Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t . . . But either way, why on earth is their opinion dispositive?He asks: "So, in other words, Osama bin Laden & Co. get to determine the legitimacy of our policies . . . ?"
George W. Bush, September 5, 2006:
These terrorists hope to drive America and our coalition out of Afghanistan, so they can restore the safe haven they lost when coalition forces drove them out five years ago. But they've made clear that the most important front in their struggle against America is Iraq -- the nation bin Laden has declared the "capital of the Caliphate." Hear the words of bin Laden: "I now address… the whole… Islamic nation: Listen and understand… The most… serious issue today for the whole world is this Third World War… [that] is raging in [Iraq]." He calls it "a war of destiny between infidelity and Islam." He says, "The whole world is watching this war," and that it will end in "victory and glory or misery and humiliation." For al Qaeda, Iraq is not a distraction from their war on America -- it is the central battlefield where the outcome of this struggle will be decided. . . .Seriously, what planet has Goldberg been living on for the last few years? Quoting Bin Laden has been a staple of the President's war rhetoric for a long time now. Bush's entire point is that we have to "take his word" and that his statements "determine the legitimacy of our policy." This argument has been a fixture of nearly every speech the President has delivered for at least the past two years. Yet somehow this style of argument "annoys" Goldberg when he hears it from a lower-tier Republican candidate. He complains that it's such a "leftwing trope."
Despite these strategic setbacks, the enemy will continue to fight freedom's advance in Iraq, because they understand the stakes in this war. Again, hear the words of bin Laden, in a message to the American people earlier this year. He says: "The war is for you or for us to win. If we win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever." . . .
Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. The question is: Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say? America and our coalition partners have made our choice. We're taking the words of the enemy seriously.
Good grief.
5 Comments:
It's true, Republicans do in fact eat their young.
Seriously, what planet has Goldberg been living on for the last few years
He's been living on a planet on which two widely-read publications are willing to pay him to write such things. Jonah Goldberg is the worst writer in this country who is currently earning a living as a writer. But for his last name, and the influence of a parent, he would be riding on the back of a garbage truck. He is not unlike George W. Bush in that way.
Of course, Li'l Goldberg attacks Ron Paul for saying something similar to the utterances of George W. Bush. Of course, he demonizes Paul for speaking a simple truth: namely, that The Terrorists do not hate us for our freedom. That's the approved talking point. When the approved talking point becomes something else, then he'll write that.
I had to stop reading Goldberg's garbage because I was spending too much time looking skyward, asking, "How? Why?"
Sometimes, you just have to accept that there isn't a complicated answer to such questions. It's like Chris Rock's response to those who wailed, in the aftermath of Columbine, "why?" Rock says, "Have you heard of 'crazy?'"
With regard to Li'l Goldberg, I can only respond: Have you heard of "stupid?"
"Seriously, what planet has Goldberg been living on for the last few years?" Better yet, did he leave his brains in the closet?
The bottom line is that OBL will never be found and Bush is diverting the public from asking those questions. From the get go, the Bush Administration's agenda is all about oil and profits. While Bush is diverting the media and public from the lies, Dick Cheney is positioning himself and his company to expand overseas in profit. Halliburton has expanded in India and now Russia.
Oddly enough Jonah can't acknowledge that the terrorists already dictate our foreign policy largely due to our reckless projection of power followed by the cavalier ineptitude of our current leadership. Every shift in tactics and strategy we employ is dictated by shifting tactics and strategies of our military and political adversaries coupled with our staunch refusal to stop standing between 2 natural enemies in Iraq.
Goldberg just used the same defective logic in writing this article. Dig deeper.
Ron Paul scares both parties because he is anti-neocon and procon (as in constitution.) All the plugs are being pulled on this threat. Goldberg is just as vicious of a liar and spin artist as the Fox Noise and most of MSM.
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