What’s The Plan?
I love election season. There’s always someone who says they can do things better than someone else. It doesn’t matter if they know exactly what that is, just that they’re willing. Running for office means never having to say you don’t have a clue. Take this gem from Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-duh).
“I just don’t understand why we can’t get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation [in Iraq] around.”
Seems a simple enough and relatively average remark for an election year, doesn’t it? I think in these cases, the first thing that comes to my mind and the question I sometimes yell in frustration to the TV talking head or the internet quote is “Exactly what do you propose to do that isn’t already being done? What could you possibly make better and not worse? In a time of war, precisely what more could you add to the process or dialogue to make it more efficient?”
The answer in most cases, and from what I’ve heard from Madam Hillary so far, is absolutely nothing. In the case of Iraq, the Democrats have no new ideas, no plans other than to pull a Vietnam era (the only real comparison I’ve found between Iraq and SE Asia) and withdraw while our ally is weak.
What new leadership could give us a “fighting chance”? This is just ridiculous no-speak. A fighting chance? I didn’t realize Americans were in retreat and running for their lives. Last I heard, casualties are down, Iraqi forces are up and fighting more on their own and the three elements of the “insurgency” are quickly melting away to nothing but foreign fighters the average Iraqi doesn’t even want there. So what fighting chance are we hoping to get with the Democrats? That I’m afraid we won’t get an answer for.
As to the more general issue of the negativity spewing from the Left sans any useful ideas, there’s Joe Biden, one of the more “moderate” of the Leftists.
“There’s not much of a comprehensive strategy, and I, quite frankly, think we’re worse off now then we were before this administration initiated its efforts in the region.”
We don’t really need any evidence or proof. Joe’s just expecting anyone listening to him will take his accusations on “faith”. You know, the thing that he and his ilk usually hang on right-wingers as an outmoded and antiquated way of looking at the world. How are we worse off? Joe’s statement was in regard to Hezbollah, Hamas and the radical Shi’a Muslims. Do they hate us more than they did before 9/11? Considering all three have American blood on their hands from up to 20 years before or more, how can they hate us more? And why would we care if they do? This isn’t a popularity contest. This is a war and their side has spent the years since 1979 figuring out how to kill or subjugate the vast majority of us.
Such things are often lost when politics comes into play and politics certainly drives much of the rhetoric of the power figures of our nation. In this case, the Party largely out of power is just taking it to the extreme, no matter how hollow their arguments and in this case they’re pretty hollow. No plan, no “exit strategy”, no master agenda on how to improve the international situation graces the platform of the Democrat Party. Their plan is to smear until they win and then hopefully figure out something if they’re elected, or even better, hope it all goes away, at least for the next four years.
That’s slipping in to the realm of fantasy, though and I think they’d be fools to expect it will. The lack of credible or useful foreign policy ideas from the Left, though shows that not only are they a grand cavalcade of fools, but that should they get back in power they’ll lead us down the road of misery, malaise and suffering. Obviously they don’t mean to. Surely they haven’t planned for that.
I love election season. There’s always someone who says they can do things better than someone else. It doesn’t matter if they know exactly what that is, just that they’re willing. Running for office means never having to say you don’t have a clue. Take this gem from Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-duh).
“I just don’t understand why we can’t get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation [in Iraq] around.”
Seems a simple enough and relatively average remark for an election year, doesn’t it? I think in these cases, the first thing that comes to my mind and the question I sometimes yell in frustration to the TV talking head or the internet quote is “Exactly what do you propose to do that isn’t already being done? What could you possibly make better and not worse? In a time of war, precisely what more could you add to the process or dialogue to make it more efficient?”
The answer in most cases, and from what I’ve heard from Madam Hillary so far, is absolutely nothing. In the case of Iraq, the Democrats have no new ideas, no plans other than to pull a Vietnam era (the only real comparison I’ve found between Iraq and SE Asia) and withdraw while our ally is weak.
What new leadership could give us a “fighting chance”? This is just ridiculous no-speak. A fighting chance? I didn’t realize Americans were in retreat and running for their lives. Last I heard, casualties are down, Iraqi forces are up and fighting more on their own and the three elements of the “insurgency” are quickly melting away to nothing but foreign fighters the average Iraqi doesn’t even want there. So what fighting chance are we hoping to get with the Democrats? That I’m afraid we won’t get an answer for.
As to the more general issue of the negativity spewing from the Left sans any useful ideas, there’s Joe Biden, one of the more “moderate” of the Leftists.
“There’s not much of a comprehensive strategy, and I, quite frankly, think we’re worse off now then we were before this administration initiated its efforts in the region.”
We don’t really need any evidence or proof. Joe’s just expecting anyone listening to him will take his accusations on “faith”. You know, the thing that he and his ilk usually hang on right-wingers as an outmoded and antiquated way of looking at the world. How are we worse off? Joe’s statement was in regard to Hezbollah, Hamas and the radical Shi’a Muslims. Do they hate us more than they did before 9/11? Considering all three have American blood on their hands from up to 20 years before or more, how can they hate us more? And why would we care if they do? This isn’t a popularity contest. This is a war and their side has spent the years since 1979 figuring out how to kill or subjugate the vast majority of us.
Such things are often lost when politics comes into play and politics certainly drives much of the rhetoric of the power figures of our nation. In this case, the Party largely out of power is just taking it to the extreme, no matter how hollow their arguments and in this case they’re pretty hollow. No plan, no “exit strategy”, no master agenda on how to improve the international situation graces the platform of the Democrat Party. Their plan is to smear until they win and then hopefully figure out something if they’re elected, or even better, hope it all goes away, at least for the next four years.
That’s slipping in to the realm of fantasy, though and I think they’d be fools to expect it will. The lack of credible or useful foreign policy ideas from the Left, though shows that not only are they a grand cavalcade of fools, but that should they get back in power they’ll lead us down the road of misery, malaise and suffering. Obviously they don’t mean to. Surely they haven’t planned for that.
posted by Rob Beck | 11:45 PM
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