All of this is fine and dandy. How do we communicate this to the nation? How do we get them to say out loud that Obama is an opportunist and so is his party?
If the most immediate answer is that the left already knows that they’ve been had. That’s why they’re screaming “betrayal” , just now. And the right, well, <a href=”http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/angry-conservative-base-itching-to-take-off-the-gloves/”the right knows what’s going on as well.
The problem is that you can just get away with saying it wants and leaving it at that. We get to where we are by eight years of relentless pounding on the part of the Democrats. I suggest it’s going to take a similar effort to get the message across in the opposite direction.
I’ve <a href=”http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/getting-back-to-gop-principles/” already addressed this point, as well. Funny how these things all intertwine, isn’t it, with one article kinda depending on the others?
So do we in fact, have Bush III in Obama?
Insofar as the war? The answer is a qualified yes. As to the rest, not so much.
Yes, the Al Qeada that we knew back then was largely a Sunni Arab phenomenon, and yes that was largely destroyed in the fight to take back Iraq from the terrorists (after Bush allowed a slide into anarchy) but the shortest distance between two points was not to take Iraq.
I think in the end the consequences are going after the Saudis directly would have been far more of an issue than you or I could contemplate. Both in terms of their goodwill elsewhere in the region , and their presence in terms of oil. And yes, that was always a consideration, here. As it should be.
And of course there’s also the issue of the Iraqi government by no means being stable, whereas the Saudi government has been stable. The Democrats spent a good deal of their time complaining about how we lost prestige around the world by taking Iraq. However, what kind of prestige would it have cost us to go after the Saudis? I think trying to justify that action would have been far harder then our action in Iraq.
To you and I, perhaps, there’s arguably enough evidence there to at least make the discussion about such an action worthwhile. To the rest of the world ? I don’t think so.
In the ultimate sense Bush took the only path available.
