(1) Proof that feminists care more for Democrats than for women: Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Monica Lewinsky.
(2) Proof that the anti-war left cares more for Democrats than for peace: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, drone strikes, and (a) giving Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize before he did anything at all in office for peace and (b) giving one to Al Gore for applying junk science to environmental extremism
(3) Proof that conservatives care more for Republicans than for the Constitution: John Boehner, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitt Romney, the Patriot Act, NSA, picking the Social security lock box, and failure to defund Obamacare
(4) Proof that libertarians care more for straight-jacketed, lock-stepped, ideological purity than for actually making the world better: voting for Ron Paul over and over and over
If you institute programs and policies without principles, the programs and policies become the principles. Eventually they seek nothing more achievable than to perpetuate themselves.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Whatever Happened to the Anti-war Left?
It looks like the anti-war left vanished, but it
didn’t. It just showed its true
colors. It isn’t so much anti-war as
anti-Republican.
(1) When a
Democrat wants to go into a Middle Eastern country because a tyrant gassed a
few hundred of his own citizens, the anti-war left doesn’t say a word, even if
the Democrat has to go it alone, and even if the Democrat intends to leave the
murdering tyrant in place. But when a
Republican wants to go into a Middle Eastern country because a tyrant gassed
more than 5,000 of his own citizens and 50,000 citizens of another country, and
even though the Republican has built a multi-national coalition for the purpose, the
anti-war left goes all peacenik on us, even though the Republican gets the
tyrant removed -- from earth, and even though the Republican declined to blame it all on an
internet video no one involved ever saw.
The anti-war left opposed that war even after they voted for it. They are silent about this war, even if
no one votes for it.
(2) The WMDs
that Assad is using on his own Syrian citizens are the WMDs that, according to
one of Saddam Husseins’s generals, were shipped from Iraq to Syria before we invaded
Iraq to find them. If you want proof
that Saddam had WMDs, then read the daily news reports from Syria -- and read
the book by that Iraqi general -- Georges Sada.
The book is called called Saddam’s Secrets. It details the time, place, number, and destination
of more than 30 shipments of WMDs from Iraq to Syria, with the help of the
Russians, who (not surprisingly) are now supporting the Syrians against us.
Please do
recall that when Democrats intervene in other countries, things often go
desperately wrong because the Democrats do not know not what they are doing,
period. Jimmy Carter throws the shah of
Iran under the bus, and the ayatollahs take over. Obama aids in the so-called Arab Spring in
Egypt and Mubarak is deposed. In his
place the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power.
At least the Egyptians themselves now realize their error and have deposed
the MB and released Mubarak. They learned
their error even if Obama has not. In
Libya, while leading from the rear, Obama helped depose Muammar Gaddafi. Then Benghazi happened and Obama blamed a
video. The man is not ready for prime
time. Statesmanship is not what they
teach in community organizer school. His world-shaking incompetence does not matter to the anti-war
left. All that matters is party
affiliation. Oh, did I mention Anastasio Samoza?
Why does the
anti-war left go silent and blind? They
do it because their guy is in charge.
As Democrat Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton confessed, she'd support the war in Syria simply because it's Obama's. For the left, everything is about partisanship, not principle. It’s a tactic and a ploy the anti-war left
learned from the feminist left. for example, if a
Democrat (A) is accused of rape, (B) is accused of indecent exposure and
groping multiple times, (C) employs power advantages over an intern for sexual
purposes and then (D) lies about it under oath so that he is both impeached and
disbarred, and if he (E) attacks the reputation of the innocent women who
accused him, the feminist left doesn’t mind at all. It’s hear no evil; see no
evil; say no evil. But if women raise
accusations against Republicans -- especially if those Republicans are black --
then the feminists go ballistic.
In short, with the
feminist left, it’s not about women; it’s about partisanship. With the anti-war left, it’s not about war;
it’s about partisanship.
PS:
The anti-war
left is silent even though Syria threatens to attack Turkey, Lebanon, Israel,
and Jordan if the US strikes. We do not know what Syria's most ardent
supporters, Russia and Iran, will do in that case. One hesitates to think how bad things might
get if Obama strikes. We do know that if
Israel is attacked, it will respond accordingly. The Middle East is a tinder box and Obama's
foreign policy is an open flame.
Or, consider it from anther
perspective: If you are a football
coach, you don't tell the other team what your next few plays will be. But if you are Barack Obama, you do. In war, that gives the other side plenty of
time to hide the weapons and persons you target. After being tipped off as to Obama's
intentions, the regime in Syria has dispersed its assets and hidden them in
civilian population centers where Syria knows we are not likely to strike, thus
securing those assets from damage. For
that reason, our strikes, being telegraphed in advance, will serve little, if
any, positive purpose.
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