Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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Re: George Will Is Blown Over By The Breeze
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
1:14 PM
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As you can imagine, much has been written already about Will's controversial column, but one point has not really been made.
One premise of Will's argument is that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government is essentially worthless. Will, however, fails to note he may soon be out of office.
On August 20, an election was held, for which ballots are still being counted. Currently, it appears Karzai may not reach the requisite 50 percent of the vote, and may thus have to face a runoff election.
If the anti-Karzai candidates all rally around his main foe, Abdullah Abdullah, it is at least possible Karzai will be replaced as president.
Considering Abdullah would likely be an improvement over Karzai, even if one agrees with Will about "nation building," the prudent writer might have at least postponed his declaration of failure until after the fate of Karzai was determined.
At worst, George Will is the advocating a John Murthaesque strategy. At best, he is premature ...
... By the way, I'm scheduled to be on MSNBC today between 3:30 and 4 pm EST to discuss this.
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as long as we're still phuking about in the Middle East.
So, it looks like it's going to be a lonnnnnng engagement. Is that right? |
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enough to mess with us, get another pike. |
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You'll be on MSNBC! WOW!
When you get on the air tell MSNBC and their 25 listerners the following:
"I'm sorry. I know I agreed to be on here today but I must leave. I can not live with myself and be part of a news outlet that features Olbermann, Matthews and Maddow. They may like be being owned and paid for by Obama and that's fine. As for me, I'm not for sale. This cable station is a disgrace. With that I bid you good night and good night to your listerners. All 25 of them.
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"I'm pretty much on board with Will but I'm not at his point of throwing my hands in the air and going, "The heck with it." That's because we don't have bin Ladin's head on a pike yet."
And then what do we do when Bin Laden's successor (of which there are many) takes his place? |
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I'm pretty much on board with Will but I'm not at his point of throwing my hands in the air and going, "The heck with it." That's because we don't have bin Ladin's head on a pike yet. That's my victory measure, the ONLY reason to be in Afghanistan. Once done, off we go. |
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We have our Georganns; you have this:
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
BTW, you really should brush up on libertarianism. It's clear you haven't a clue. |
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Isn't Will a weak defeatist traitor now according to the GOP Rulebook? |
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consider yourself flagged you moron you.
of course "cicero" claims to not "understand" your post! What a complete crock of libertarian moral equivocation! I'm glad you are so much for free speech cicero-I hope you choke on "georganns" |
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I can follow you on what you say in the first sentence of your post, but that's about all. While I'm critical of the State of Israel and its lobby here in the US, I'm no conspiracy theorist, or an anti-Semite, and Pat Buchanan remains a hero of mine. |
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"As you can imagine, much has been written already about Will's controversial column, but one point has not really been made."
It's "controverisal", Matt, only to those who haven't yet learned that neoconservatism is a failed experiment. |
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