The crisis call did not come at 3 a.m. It came much later in the morning and our leader's reaction was to continue reading to the children, then to go to ground instead of leading and calming the nation, and only then belatedly to deplore the attack that killed some 3,000 Americans on that clear September day.
Next he asked all Americans to support a counterattack by shopping, following which he invaded a country that had nothing to do with the attack on us.
It’s worth remembering what the GOP's president really did and did not do as the Republicans are set to run an Iraq War enabler to succeed him. Meanwhile the Democrats are wavering between two candidates, one of them another Iraq enabler who, like her rival (as well as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, Carter, etc.) and like herself, has little foreign policy experience.
The real problem is that all 3 of the remaining candidates subscribe in one form or another to the idea that America has a right to send its military anywhere in the world to do anything it sees as in its "interest".
None of them is even hinting that a military budget that exceeds that of the rest of the world combined, and for which there is no auditable record should be diminished or even stabilized.
None of them even mentions our 800+ military bases on foreign soil. None of them have the temerity to suggest that we need to raise taxes to recoup the losses incurred during the Bush years.
Hillary, Barack, it makes little difference. McCain is a dangerous lunatic endorsed by the President with the lowest approval rating in history. It would have been a good time to nominate a real liberal.
Posted by: Charles on March 5, 2008 9:23 PM