Blogging Tory and "Strong Conservative" Jonathan Strong puts on his deep thinking pundit hat and promises to set us down and set us straight:
The Bush Doctrine: A Review
As we approach the tragic anniversary of September 11th, it is constructive to review the policy positions taken by the Bush Administration to confront Islamic fascism from shortly after the attacks on New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania to the strategic posture of the United States today. This article will examine elements of President George W. Bush’s address to a joint session of Congress following the terrorist attacks and compare his statements to America’s ongoing fight against Al Qaeda and Islamic fascists today.
Oh, this should be good -- sort of like getting prepped to hear a seminar on advanced cosmology from The Politic's Aaron Unruh. Yeah, sort of like that.
It is arguable that a majority of Americans still hold anger towards those that attacked America six years ago and that the resolution to defeat them remains. However, the same cannot be said of many Democrats and left wing journalists who seek to demoralize the troops, weaken their resolve, and retreat from the enemy at every turn.
Whereas the Republicans ... well, by God, the Republicans, they of the glint in their eye and steely backbone and endless resolve and ... and ... uh ... say what?
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
And, yes, that is where I stopped reading. Why do you ask?
2 comments:
His ongoing facts vs rhetoric battle is something to behold, isn't it?
the attacks on New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was attacked? Was that field a strategic target of some kind?
Al Qaeda is a canny little bunch of terrorists! No wonder we couldn't find their WMD in Iraq!
I am still very angry about 9/11
I am angry at the failure of my government to stop the plot in the first place. The fault of which I lay squarely at the foot of George W. Bush for ignoring Bin Ladin completely despite warnings from Clinton.
I am angry at Osama Bin Ladin for organizing the attack in the first place.
I am angry at the hijackers who crashed the planes.
I am angry at Congress for ramming through the PATRIOT act without fucking reading it and for their extreme cowardice in not immediately and without qualifications DEFUND this fucking war and bring our troops home by any means necessary even if they have to shut the government down completely by filibustering every damned bill that goes though.
I'm angry at the Supreme Court for not telling Bush that he's not allowed to torture or imprison people indefinitely and that he's not allowed to invade our privacy just on his word alone. Because we are not fucking criminals nor are we slaves to Bush.
I am angry at George W. Bush so many things, including his foreign policy of preemptive war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 in any way shape or form. For his utter lack of respect for the Constitution or for the American people, which is what gives him his power in the first damned place.
I am angry that we have ignored a legitimate conflict in Afghanistan where there are actual terrorists hiding to focus on Bush's ego war. All the while allowing continuing to allow Iraq to spiral out of control into a humanitarian nightmare.
I'm angry that we're completely ignoring the fact that Al Quaeda terrorists are currently IN Pakistan and the leadership of that government can't/won't do fuck all about out. "There is no difference between the terrorists and those who harbor them."
I am angry that, criminal or not, American citizen Jose' Padilla was stripped of his rights under the US Constitution and was held for over three years without charges all the while being subjected to torture only to be formally charged when the courts finally started noticing. He was still convicted, on flimsy evidence, despite Bushco's vehement argument that civillian courts would not be sufficient to put terrorists away.
I'm angry that Nancy Pelosi is such a fucking traitorous coward that even now with our death toll approaching 4000 Americans and untold numbers of Iraqis she still won't IMPEACH the mother fucker in office despite his felony violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillances Act and the felony frauds he committed to get us into war in the first place.
I'm angry at the rest of the world for not stepping up collectively and bitch slapping this government for it's pre-emptive war policy.
Lastly I'm angry at the my fellow Americans who were too fucking busy hiding under their beds and covering their homes with duct tape and saran wrap to keep out imaginary boogie men while President George W. Bush was wiping his ass with the fucking Constitution.
What I'm not? Afraid of terrorists, Osama Bin Ladin, Al Quaeda, 'Islamofacists' or any other straw man or boogie man the right wing authoritarian assholes in the Republican party want to dangle out there to maintain their unconstitutional level of power - and I will remember their actions for many years to come.
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