Comments on: Christian Brose’s Analysis Of Barack Obama’s Speech On Iraq

By: rrpjr

rrpjr — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:59:28 +0000

You might as well ask a jackal to share his food. Magnanimty is simply not in the DNA makeup of the Left,

By: MikeO

MikeO — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:10:43 +0000

Mr. Brose made a poor choice of words.

That One could not possibly do anything magnanimous. That One has no soul.

By: USNJIMRET

USNJIMRET — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:22:30 +0000

his egomaniacal core prevents him from EVER acknowledging ANYTHING that the previous eight years got right.
Admitting that the surge was a success would also be Obama admitting he had been wrong to oppose it.
And other then the Daschel “screw up”, I can’t remember another single instance where this ‘master politician’ has EVER admitted he was wrong.

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:17:24 +0000

But I think that we can avoid taking the advice of the Dutch on how to handle our internal affairs. Particularly since I’m pretty sure that you typed out “ethnic cleansing” with a wistful look on your face.

Ontploffing.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:09:12 +0000

We long ago hashed out all of these arguments on this site. Most of us still feel that the Iraq war was necessary and indeed I believe it was inevitable even if a democrat would have been in office.

And we also agree it was bungled for about three years, but finally put right. You are somewhat correct that the Bush administration should take no pride in their handling, but as for “being brought up on charges” that is left-speak hyperbole and stupidity.

By: Hammer2008

Hammer2008 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:45:26 +0000

brother (?) bbrand, careful how fast you are with your alleged facts. In the process of your commenting, you opened up several weaknesses in your arguments.

Your initial parable is a fair attempt. Go and see TheWatchmen next weekend (as I just got to — awesomeness) and revise the parable as thus:

I am going to go down the street, stop a serial arsonist from lighting off another home and prevent him from mass murder of a measly million lives, give or take, in hopes of preventing the fire from spreading; I’m going to go down there and wipe him out. I’m going to go down there irrespective of whether the neighborhood thanks me or even pitches in to help rebuild the burned out homes or help bury the dead. Sure, I’ll call on the fire departments, but in this “city”, as FlavorFlave sang, 9-1-1 is a joke. At least my family will have my own back while I’m gone, right? They’ll support me while I’m gone, right? Right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYXm7n62nU

And if you are going to insist on using English spellings throughout on this here American forum, beware. elRushbo must have been talking of your type here (approx. 25 minutes in):

http://www.examiner.com/x-2304-DC-Republican-Examiner~y2009m2d28-Rush-Limbaugh-knocks-them-dead-at-CPAC-Full-Video

p.s. Stop being a nunce there Checker!

By: bbrand

bbrand — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:04:02 +0000

I am going to go down the street, light a house on fire, fight off the fire departments for several hours then then finally let them in. I am going to grab a hose and even help them put that fire out.

Now, when can I expect my Congressional Medal of Honour for my bravery helping the fire department?

In then real world, like the one where people are paid to lead and make decisions, you do not get praised for correct your biggest mistakes. You are lucky to keep your job in that case.

It’s like those bankers giving themselves bonus’s in spite of the crash. “I should get my bonus because somewhere, somehow, something I did earned me some money”

Asking Obama to praise Bush for finally doing something right after 4 years of first starting this silly war and then totally bungling the aftermath is so far from reality as it can get. Bush and his should hunker down feel lucky he is not hauled before a court.

Btw, I would analyse the “surge” first, and for example see how accepting the ethnic cleansing of whole neighbourhoods is an integral part of the solution. Sorry to rain on your parade.