Laura at Ace of Spades HQ posted a snippet of a new editorial from the WaPo that is most probably gonna be the new meme from the left. Sure, Iraq is working, but we still paid too high a price to make it work:
Though I don’t especially want to perpetuate any stereotypes about the mainstream media, I have to say that this optimism is totally unwarranted. Not because things aren’t improving in Iraq — it seems they are, at least for the moment — but because the collateral damage inflicted by the war on America’s relationships with the rest of the world is a lot deeper and broader than most Americans have realized. It isn’t just that the Iraq war invigorated the anti-Americanism that has always been latent pretty much everywhere. What’s worse is the fact that — however it all comes out in the end, however successful Iraqi democracy is a decade from now — our conduct of the war has disillusioned our natural friends and supporters and thrown a lasting shadow over our military and political competence. However it all comes out, the price we’ve paid is too high.
Now who couldn’t see this coming?
They have invested way too much to just turn around and say “hey, we were wrong!” No, now it’s a message of sadness over how many people hate us over Iraq.
Problem is, we have always been hated, and loved. It was the same 50 years ago and will be the same 50 years in the future. Some hate how successful we are. Some hate Democracy. Some hate our ideals. You can count al-Qaeda in that group and the question is, should we care?
All I know is that a country which was ruled by a tyrannical despot with visions of WMD dancing in his head is now free. People vote for their leaders now. Their economy is beginning to thrive, as most Democracies do. If we are to be hated because we are at fault for this then so be it. Bring the hate.
But more likely this is just another indication that the left is in free-fall. They can’t explain how their “wonderful failure” went so wrong so now its not that we won, who cares about that now, its that our image is tainted in the world.
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“invigorated the anti-Americanism”……..tell that to the people who lost their lives on 911. No, the anti-Americanism just wasn’t spoken so loudly, it came quietly in the form of hijacked airliners, the Cole, the embassies in Africa and on and on. The media mostly ignored the anti-Americanism that was shouting behind those events. Now they have chosen to make it an issue. Someone needs to ask who is now anti-American who was not anti-American 7 years ago?
I wonder if they bought carbon credits to offset all that work they have been doing constantly moving the goal posts?
The U.S. polls other countries on how well it’s doing. There are countries in Africa that are giving the U.S. higher marks than the U.S. gave itself.
Hatred is when people stop eating cabbage because it’s associated with the Germans (happened during WWI and WWII) or not putting money in a bank because it’s “operated by Jews.” The Lebaonese “dress like” U.S. Marines because they look up to them, Somalians watched Blackhawk Down and countries are wanting the U.S. to put bases on their soil (no country welcomes enemy bases on their soil).
The LA Times has an artical today showing that another country with a drug and insergency problem is being turned around with U.S. help. Their insergency was strong enough to have its own armed aircraft and armed boats.
Got any 21-year-old cousins who got blown up so that some Iraqis can be free?
I didn’t think so, asswipe.
“However it turns out, the price we’ve paid is too much”.
That coming from mainly liberal democrats who thrive & celebrate that killing 4,000 pre-born babies every day!
What price do we pay is too much?
cs
I saw it coming.
Oh, look: it’s trying to make a point.
Ok, I’m confused: Does this mean that you’re the “ass”, or the “excrement” coming out?
Hui Song — thanks for the demonstration of a leftist mind; can’t make a valid point, so demean, swear, and act like a jerk.
Sad, just sad.
wordsmith, you’ll appreciate this: as a native Russian speaker I can tell you that in Russian “Hui” means the expletive for the male sexual organ. “Hui Song” is thus an exciting concept, perhaps having something to do with the attitude and linguistic skills of this creative individual. Some day there may be a ballad wrtten about the radical left’s constantly changing narrative on Iraq. And perhaps it will be named “Hui Song”…
iraq is working? by the administrations own stated goals it is not working…so of course, as they always do, they are now moving the goal posts. in your rush to cheerlead be careful not to confuse tactics and strategy. the escalation TACTIC may have helped security…we have more boots on the ground than ever before and violence has ticked back to 2005 levels by some accounts. but so far the STRATEGY is not working. and again…that’s by the white houses own stated goals. and now we are faced with the reality that troops have to come out because…and this was always true…the TACTIC is unsustainable.
Hui Song,
I;m a 34 yr old Major in the US Army. I belive fully in what we are doing and bet my life on it. Any responses?
Jay k,
Your diatrabe is comming from someone who does not want to see us win, and never did. You weep for the enemy and curse the US Military and the people doing our best to succeed inspite of the knives the left shoves in our backs. I came face to face with a leftist DOS traitor in Iraq who was gleefully bragging that he was ensuring we would fail. I reported him to the CoC, but we could do nothing because he is DOS, not DoD. Now I find you making the same ignorant statements we already knew were comming.
But if/when we are ever hit again, you will be at the forefront of those begginf for help and demanding to know why ‘something’ was not done before. If you want failures, then look at EVERY social program the leftists have ever implemented in the US.
A leftist trying to talk about tactics vs strategy…. that’s rich. More than tactics were invovled in the surge, but I will leave it to you to find them in open source news.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 11/26/2007 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…
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