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December 04, 2006

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Kuypers is as a guiding light in the fog of liberal academia and the MSM.

we shall see about the President...

i sort of feel we failed the Man.

certainly he is, nor is his Administration, perfect, but in context with the rest of the folly in Washington, they have done well since 9-11.

but we asked him, at least it seemed at the time, to agressively go after the various threats posed in the World, especially in the Arab Region, and then many grew impatient when some aspects proved difficult.

i guess, i feel this President and his Administration, deserved a greater defense from the unethical MSM partisans desperate to undermine.

'Kuypers calls the mainstream news media an “anti-democratic institution”'

no doubt about it...

that study is deeply concerning.

how can our Nation determine sound policy and healthy governance with this unethical manipulation?

Stalin's Pravda would be impressed.


Anymore I'm not sure where the President stands or what he will do. One thing is sure, he and the Republicans still don't know how to do end runs around the media machine. Not to mention the fact that many times they don't even appear to be trying.

As usual, we'll have to watch and wait for a response of some sort. Will he stand up and say "we stay the course until the job is done"? or will he say, "oh, I guess you want us to leave now, so we will because it will make the Mr. Baker happy"?

(Sissy, I answered your observations/questions in e-mail and in the old post, but am copying the response here as well.)

(1) Yes, the US, at the time, decided against continuing the fight on into Iraq once Kuwait was liberated, and that decision just looks wiser every day;

(1a) We *did* in fact toss *some* of our enemy's enemies (a more precise description than "allies" or "friends") to the wolves after Gulf War I; on the other hand, we gave the Kurds (for example) nothing more than a decade of air cover and they emerged with a functioning de facto government. Lesson learned, the "friends" have to do the bulk of the heavy lifting themselves, which none of the current crowd of "friends" aside from the Kurds are prepared or able to do, and

(2) Depending on how you define the terms "negotiate" and "terrorist," almost everyone does it, including Israel. Hell, "our man" in Iraq right now, Mr. Nouri al-Maliki, is beholden to the Shia terrorist strongmen of Iraq as his power-base in the current war of "all against all."

Unless we intend for our grandchildren to be in that wretched country as an occupying force, we'd damned well better find *someone* with power to negotiate with, and as for the other side's "fantasies" of winning, those Shia "fantasists" are currently kicking our collective asses; when that happens, unless you intend to press for *all-out* war against *all* of those who oppose you (show of hands? anyone?) you negotiate.

You may find realism damnable in this situation, but so far, historically, realpolitik has a much better record in that region than neoconservative nation-building.

enrevanche's grandchildren will be Muslims if his views prevail.

>> enrevanche's grandchildren will be Muslims if his views prevail.<<

Disengaging from this disastrously botched, incompetently conducted battle is prudent. So is planning to win the long-term war, which our current strategy or any variation on it simply will not do.

The assumption that Mr. Baker will in any way direct the policies of the President of the United States is ludicrous and demeans the intelligence and strength of this good man. Certainly Mr. Bush will listen to Mr. Baker. He will listen to a lot of people. But then, I believe, he will make his own decisions based on a far broader base of information available to him than any single adviser can (or indeed should) possess.

I still believe in the fundamental decency and resolve of this good man, George W. Bush. He has been the target of nearly inconceivable rage and hatred for 6 years and still is able to hold his head high - which is far beyond the ability of ANY of his detractors. They would be in a rubber room by now, had they been subject to the same unreasoning, foaming-at-the-mouth hysterical invective.

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