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…instead of killing troops outright, then they have unfortunately gotten smart.
A soldier who knows he will not be taken prisoner is much more motivated to fight to the death. If they start following the rules of war even to a small degree the propaganda value and morale value will be very valuable to them.
…one about the past and one about the present.
Nasty Thought #1: All this draft nonsense:
Do you get the feeling that MSNBC and the left are pushing and talking draft right now because they are afraid of Gen Petraeus? Not afraid of him politically but afraid of him as a general. I have the horrible and uncharitable feeling that they are afraid he will actually win this war.
Success in the war would mean a more powerful US. One more likely to act rather than talk. The concept of the US military as a force never to be used is even more sacred to the left than the first black president. They aren’t in a position to attack Petraeus so the only way to counter him is to get the country talking draft. With a high unemployment rate and college so expensive it is a tempting solution to several social/economic problems but it would scare the britches off of many in the ME generation.
The left has never lost their love of 60’s radicalism, it was their greatest moment, it is their dream to bring it back in living color.
Such an appraisal is not very fair to most of the left and is as I said a nasty thought, but right now it is stuck in my head and won’t come out.
Nasty Thought #2 Al Gore
For years I’ve wondered why Al Gore didn’t assert himself during the Clinton Impeachment stuff. It would have been up to Gore to talk to the president and say it was time for him to go. If he had conventional wisdom says he would have easily won election in 2000 and maybe even in 2004. Not only did he not assert himself but he after the impeachment vote made that ludicrous speech calling Mr. Bill “One of our greatest presidents” (talk about grading on a curve)! In my mind the question has always been: Why did he play along?
I have the nasty feeling that question has now been answered. Does anyone believe for one moment that if the Clintons knew Gore had some ahem “interesting diversions” they wouldn’t have held that over him? Al understood that people judge a Rogue differently than a “strait arrow”. It’s the expectations game. People were not surprised that Clinton was messing around and judged him accordingly, but Gore? He would be judged by his strait arrow image.
Again this is a nasty thought and assumes Gore’s guilt but I can’t get it out of my head.
Are these thoughts a sign I am becoming paranoid or am I just becoming more street savvy? What do you think?
…from their site. Down the memory hole it goes, via Weasel Zippers. Stacy puts it best:
The American Left: Shamelessly Following Orders Ever Since Stalin Told Us to Endorse Hitler’s Invasion of Poland.
Well not everyone. AMERICAblog expresses surprise:
You’ll remember Petraeus as one of the Iraq war’s biggest defenders. Which is interesting, since the Senate Democrats just a few years ago produced a lengthy analysis of how flawed Petraeus’ Iraq testimony really was.
They get full marks for consistency, but it’s funny I’m sure the first thing on everybody’s mind was his testimony. It prompted the following comment from me:
Perhaps our democratic friends have discovered that “flawed congressional testimony” doesn’t trump actual success in winning a war.
I’ve already said I don’t care who commands as long as we win (and don’t have to do without Lara Logan). Little Miss Attila is still worried:
I actually think it was a clever move, though I wonder whether it’s possible to salvage the situation at this point.
And I offer her these words of encouragement:
Have faith Joy, after all that’s what the World Cup announcers were saying at the 90th minute of today’s match.
However Michal Yon in an e-mail to Glenn is more bullish:
I was there through the entire surge, and more, and saw the remarkable transformation under command of General Petraeus and due to the incredible efforts of our armed forces and civilian counterparts. No book that I have read, including the one that I wrote, has fully conveyed the magnitude of those days. You simply had to be there.
Here we are again. This time on the cusp of losing the war in Afghanistan. The situation is worse than ever before. Again, the United States has asked General David Petraeus to step into a situation that seems hopeless to many people. It is not hopeless, just extremely bad.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Update: Now a Memeorandum thread coming to a computer near you.
There are some things that are just too ridiculous to be believed.
CBS News’ #2 exec made a strange confession to Broadcasting & Cable magazine: the network isn’t covering Afghanistan as much as it used to because war correspondent Lara Logan is out on maternity leave.
“I would think that the biggest factor in how much less we’ve had on the air really has to do with Lara Logan’s pregnancy than it does with anything else,” CBS News Executive VP Paul Friedman said.
Via National Review which posted on the Huff Po story with one word: Unbelievable!
Are you telling me in an era when reporters are dropping like flys there isn’t anyone available to cover the war? Hey maybe we can get the Taliban to agree to a cease fire till Logan is done with her maternity leave?
Hey CBS why don’t you offer a contract to one of the two Michaels? Yon or Totten?
Cripes no wonder the MSM is sinking like a rock.
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