Bin Laden for Bush? ha ha ha
Well, the pundits all seem to think that OBL on the news is good for Bush. Is the American public insane? Bush said that he was going to get Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive".
And he's failed - after more than three years - the world's most expensive and powerful armed forces have failed - not because the troops are necessarily incompetent, but because the political leadership has demanded stupid tactics (B-52 strikes against guerillas) and strategy (moving the focus to another country).
The September 11 attack happened on Bush's watch - after he'd taken a month-long vacation in which it is apparent he was warned that al Qaeda was about to attack. And he did nothing. His Soviet-era NSA did nothing - except push forward with a plan for an obsolete boondoggle pork-barrel project for missile defense.
He has failed to take any steps to change the rationale for Bin Laden's enmity. I believe that if the USA were to change its actions to appear less anti-Islam (drop knee-jerk support for Israel - there's no such thing as "the Jewish vote" any more - like Christianity, it seems to have polarized into zealots and commonsense; stop supporting corrupt secular dictators; stop insisting that a secular democracy is the only way to run a country; etc.) much of the hostility, and many of the hostile acts against America and its allies would disappear. Instead, Bush has given pious Muslims more legitimate (in their eyes, at least) reasons for hating and perpetrating violence against America.
The fact that no attack on American soil has happened in over three years means nothing. Bin Laden is not working to a four-year re-election cycle - he and the millions behind him can wait and wait until the time is right (Bush's Inauguration day parade?). Bush has given no indication of understanding this elementary fact.
Basically, GWB has screwed up in every way possible regarding terrorism.
But Bush is the man to keep America safe? If these people who are apparently influencing public opinion seriously believe this, they deserve Bush. Trouble is that more than 50% of the population don't believe this bullshit, and neither does the rest of the world.
And he's failed - after more than three years - the world's most expensive and powerful armed forces have failed - not because the troops are necessarily incompetent, but because the political leadership has demanded stupid tactics (B-52 strikes against guerillas) and strategy (moving the focus to another country).
The September 11 attack happened on Bush's watch - after he'd taken a month-long vacation in which it is apparent he was warned that al Qaeda was about to attack. And he did nothing. His Soviet-era NSA did nothing - except push forward with a plan for an obsolete boondoggle pork-barrel project for missile defense.
He has failed to take any steps to change the rationale for Bin Laden's enmity. I believe that if the USA were to change its actions to appear less anti-Islam (drop knee-jerk support for Israel - there's no such thing as "the Jewish vote" any more - like Christianity, it seems to have polarized into zealots and commonsense; stop supporting corrupt secular dictators; stop insisting that a secular democracy is the only way to run a country; etc.) much of the hostility, and many of the hostile acts against America and its allies would disappear. Instead, Bush has given pious Muslims more legitimate (in their eyes, at least) reasons for hating and perpetrating violence against America.
The fact that no attack on American soil has happened in over three years means nothing. Bin Laden is not working to a four-year re-election cycle - he and the millions behind him can wait and wait until the time is right (Bush's Inauguration day parade?). Bush has given no indication of understanding this elementary fact.
Basically, GWB has screwed up in every way possible regarding terrorism.
But Bush is the man to keep America safe? If these people who are apparently influencing public opinion seriously believe this, they deserve Bush. Trouble is that more than 50% of the population don't believe this bullshit, and neither does the rest of the world.
posted by hughster @ 10/31/2004 03:52:00 PM
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