not to mention that the past 7+ years have demonstrated that the Left and its revolutionary media vanguard will absolutely make such an enterprise impossible. as soon as such a topic would be breached it would be Wailed about by everyone from Der Spiegel to The Nation to The New York Times editorial page to Sen. Feingold to Chris Matthews to The Washington Post to George Cluny/Sean Penn’s next production.

this is the main problem with the Left: even if you were to engage solely in a peaceful, political (diplomatic) effort to repel or undercut the jihad, it does not matter, they would *oppose* you. because the purpose of their criticism is not to correct policy but to attack and weaken the united states.

bush’s main problem – and obama will have the same problem – was that he could not say “these people are really screwed up, islam really is just as churchill described it, this is the only way.” instead he must engage in a strategy of isolating the jihadis as perverters of islam. instead *he* is isolated, his government is isolated, and ipso facto the USA is isolated. the result is this bizarre mishmash where we kill jihadis and try to prop up countries of mostly unreconstructable barbarians whose mental vocabulary just does not *include* the sentiments required to set up and maintain a reasonably modern government. while this goes on, the whole of the media is anti-bush/USA/democracy-in-Mussulmanland.

this is intentional. its purpose is to isolate the USA. and it’s working.