Bush’s War Riddled with Flaws
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Sun, 2006-10-01 07:23
A quote from Joshua Trevino at Claremont’s The Remedy, 30 September 2006
The war on terror as set forth by the President has been riddled with profound conceptual and rhetorical flaws from the start: beginning with the White House-promulgated phrase “war on terror” itself, which has all the sense of labeling the Second World War in Europe as the “war against mechanized divisions.” This odd call to warfare against a method – fighting a verb rather than a noun, so to speak – was done specifically to avoid offending Muslims. [...] How is it that this President may grasp the value of wartime steadfastness better than any since Truman – and utterly miss the value of forthright honesty in wartime policy discourse, not least with oneself, as poorly as any since Johnson?
Great 4-part video produced by the LEFT...yes the LEFT!!!!!
Submitted by FLLegal on Thu, 2006-10-05 09:16.
A RECOMMENED MUST SEE...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbznv15JQ5M
David Aaronovitch: No Excuses For Terror. Who is really responsible for the suicide bombers that target us? Is it the fault of George Bush or Tony Blair? Are we all somehow to blame? David Aaronovitch, journalist and commentator, has had enough of this argument. He asks how we've got to the point where British Socialists support Islamofascist Terrorism. Aaronovitch explains where the left have gone wrong on Israel, Palestine, the War in Iraq and the War on Terror.
I want genuine peace.
Submitted by Dan on Mon, 2006-10-02 01:25.
I’m sick of this ridiculous tit-for-tat too; either it’s worth fighting over or it isn’t and if it’s worth fighting for it’s worth the sacrifices necessary to prevail. We should offer them nothing but pain, misery death and destruction until they decide it’s over; then humanity can return.
I don’t want a truce, I want genuine peace and to get that not only do reasonable men need to realize that we are fair and just but also unreasonable men need to realize we will go beyond what they can bear.
Grammarians unite
Submitted by Banjo on Sun, 2006-10-01 16:19.
Who cares what it's called, War on Terror or something else? Everybody knows what everybody else is talking about -- Moslems.
True article...
Submitted by FLLegal on Sun, 2006-10-01 08:39.
First let me say that I am a Republican who thinks President Bush is not conservative enough. Just look at our illegal immigration problem and it seems he is fighting this war in Iraq "half-assed". We should be overwhelming them in Iraq with brute monstrous force. I've got a nephew in Ankbar province, i.e. Ramadi, in the marines and I'm concerned we are not fighting this war as aggressively and ruthlessly as we should. I don't care for "tit for tat" warfare. I'm concerned about Bush and his ploy or plan to have a "North American Federation". But thank God he did not sign onto the International Criminal Court, i.e. Treaty of Rome. I say all this because Bush is far better than anything the Democrats could offer; yet he does not fully please me. Now to the article I agree. This is NOT a war against terror, but Islam. Islam is NOT a "religion of peace" as Bush contends.
We, Bush included, need to face reality as to what we are up against. The West prefers to wish for the best or look the other way, but we, the West, are in a fight for our lives and way of life, and we just don't seem to understand that. Well some of us get it and I wish Bush would get it too.
True article...
Submitted by Norman Conquest 304 on Sun, 2006-10-01 09:09.
I understand the point that FLLaw33870 is making and agree with it entirely. However, in my view, President Bush was right to use the term "war on terror" instead of "war on Islam". When the (islamo-)fascist regimes are brought down as was the case in Iraaak, society must be rebuilt and, whether you like it or not Islam, is an essential component that has to be reckoned with. Most unfortunately. The reason is that Islam has been part of those countries' culture for so long. People would not agree to immlediately abandon it for another form of social order. Reform is a long and chaotic process.
Bush’s War Riddled with Flaws
Submitted by Norman Conquest 304 on Sun, 2006-10-01 08:20.
Moreover, this contortionate story is another piece, not a masterpiece though, of primitive anti-Bushism in disguise. With such intellectual "remedies" from so-called Conservatives, we don't need Liberal mind poisoning.
Bush’s War Riddled with Flaws
Submitted by Norman Conquest 304 on Sun, 2006-10-01 07:57.
The content of this text is not convincing at all and even contradicts everything the BJ has so far been standng for in respect of the Muslim world and the terror it is trying to impose on the rest of the world. This exercise is a childish and ludicrous piece by some pseudo-conversative posers.