Just to show you how nuts some Bush supporters are
This was found in a recent Op-Ed in the Opinion Journal, a section of the NY Journal. In a nutshell, this guy named Shelby Steele thinks the United States has been losing in Iraq is because we have "white guilt" over our oppression of blacks and Indians and as a result, don’t want to push too hard in Iraq and elsewhere, because we fear it might seem like we’re oppressing again. I kid you not.
It began, I believe, in a late-20th-century event that transformed the world more profoundly than the collapse of communism: the world-wide collapse of white supremacy as a source of moral authority, political legitimacy and even sovereignty. . . .
The collapse of white supremacy–and the resulting white guilt–introduced a new mechanism of power into the world: stigmatization with the evil of the Western past. And this stigmatization is power because it affects the terms of legitimacy for Western nations and for their actions in the world. In Iraq, America is fighting as much for the legitimacy of its war effort as for victory in war. In fact, legitimacy may be the more important goal.
It gets even better, as another Bush supporter, Jeff Goldstein, champions total war against Iraq and likely other trouble spots. He even argues for a "March to the sea" ala General Sherman. Yeah, because committing scorched earth against a third world country of muslims is just going to break their spirits. If he believes that BS, then I have some beach front property in Arizona for him.
This guy has no clue at all. Going all out on Iraq and destroying towns would only increase the size of the insurgency. We’d see men and women strapping bombs to their chests, maybe even children would do the same. Internationally, we would be see as the living embodiment of evil. An evil not seen since the rise of Nazi Germany. It would only win us scorn, condemnation, not applause and a pat on the back. Our reputation in the world would be completely and utterly destroyed.But compassionate conservatism, whatever you think of the concept domestically, clearly shouldn’t extend to war—and there are times when the international equivalent of Sherman’s march through the South would, in the long run, save American soldier’s lives and foreshorten the conflict.
Which is why there are times when we really should turn off the “smart” bombs and show our seriousness by putting the world on notice that, when we believe the situation calls for it, we are willing to ignore the inevitable bad press and the howls of protest from human rights groups, and exhibit a show of strength and military professionalism that is politically disinterested and tactically thorough and lethal.
Of course, no one wishes to see innocent civilians die (only the unserious make the claim that those who support what they consider to be a necessary war somehow luxuriate in collateral deaths). But at the same time, from a practical standpoint, there is nothing wrong with fighting a war as if it is a war—and sometimes the only way to disabuse the enemy of the notion that we are constrained by a moral calculus that makes little sense in urban combat situations is to refuse to show the kind of restraint they have come to anticipate and count on.
Domestically, the Bush administration would meet its end. There would be riots in the streets of likely all towns and cities in the US. Congress, all of Congress, even the Republicans, would have no choice but to impeach Bush and remove him from office. Cheney would probably resign under pressure from Republicans and Dennis Hastert would become President. Rumsfield would be fired and arrested, as would Bush, Cheney and anyone other official involved.
Hell, I doubt our boys over there would even comply with such an order. They could mutiny. Stay in their barracks, while the ones still out in the field return to base. What’s the Pentagon going to do, charge an entire army with treason, for not committing wholesale slaughter and destruction on a populace that doesn’t deserve it? Yeah, that’ll look real nice on the news.
Then we have a real dumbass named Matt Noonan, who thinks white supremacy had its "good and bad points". The hellass? Someone might want to check his wallet for a KKK membership card. This fucker thinks that the white race has nothing to learn from the "darkies". Yeah, just ignore the fact that we got gunpowder, mathmatics and a few other things from the arab world. Oh, and a few discoveries and achievements have been done by black men and women.
It just sickens me to think things kind of people are not just breathing, but are spreading their idiotic ideas around the internet and likely (atleast in Steele’s case, does) books.
