December 07, 2006
Suck-up to dictators, throw trouble-making Jews under the bus...
That's what the Iraq Surrender Group is all about. I'm too busy tired and pissed to write about it--Hugh Hewitt is worth reading.
The far right and the left both like this thing, so I spit upon it. And I think I hate "Blue-blazer Republicans" more than I hate the chomskies.
UPDATE: Dafydd has a lot of good thoughts. [Part one. Part two.] Worth reading. Short version: The dicta were written by the Democrats, but the holdings (ie: the actual recommendations) were written by the
Republicans of the group...
Thinking about Mike's comment, I suspect that the Dems needed a paper defeat. Remember the old Vietnam line, "Let's declare victory and leave?" The Dems want to declare defeat and stay! They don't want the political hot-potato of cut-and-run, they just need something to give to their drooling fake-pacifist supporters. Hopefully this will satisfy the peaceniks, and they'll now let the grown-ups get on with the War on Terror.
There is much in there to be pissed-off about. It sends a horrible message to our allies (and to our enemies). Only consolation I can find is that it is such a muddle of clichés and nonsense that no one could ever view it as an "action-plan". As I see it this gives Bush two more years to figure it out, which is fine by me.
Posted by: Mike Plaiss at December 7, 2006 01:34 PM
