Obama’s Top Nat Sec Guy Says Iran is all Bush’s Fault
Well of course he does. What else would he say?
Sen. Barack Obama’s most senior military adviser says President Bush is to blame for Iran’s bad behavior.
The assessment from an interview with retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak provides a glimpse into how an Obama administration would deal with Iran.
The line from the retired General is that Iran was all about the al-Qaeda and Taliban hate before mean old Pesident Cowboy McGrumpypants said that “axis of evil” thing and turned them against us. He want us to sit down with the Mad Mahmoud and the Mullahs and find ways we can get on the same side and start pulling our oars together.
Maybe we can come to some sort of agreement on how best to kill teenaged girls who get a little too uppity. Or perhaps we can draw up some sort of reasonable quota on how many women should be hung to death for resisting rape. I think it would make our world simply sunshine and rainbows if we could just come to a meeting of the minds on how many gay people should be put to death every month, don’t you? And while we’re there, wouldn’t it be nice to get the destruction of Israel on an orderly schedule instead of the slapdash way it’s been tried so far? heck, let’s offer to cack a few jews ourselves, you know, as a sign of good faith. I’m sure there are some neocons Jews in the Bush administration that we could all agree are worthy of a quick death, right guys? C’mon, General. Why be coy? If we’re going to extend the glad hand of friendship and if Mad Mahmoud would be such a valuable ally for us, why not just go all the way?
I respect General McPeak’s service in the Air Force as I do anyone who has served the people of this country. That doesn’t make him particularly wise nor beyond criticism. And boy howdy does he deserve criticism for the blindingly stupid things he said in this article. It astounds me how easily folks like McPeak would sit down and negotiate happily and generously with monsters. He can extend a huge benefit of the doubt to Mad Mahmoud and the Mullahs even though they have shown over and over again that they deserve none yet he can’t manage to give President Bush the same courtesy. Folks like that simply are not serious thinkiers and shuoldn’t be within a hundred miles of the reins of power of this country. They’re dangerous to all of us, not because they’re malicious but because they are both arrogant and ignorant at the same time.
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Category: Moonbat Nonsense, No More Tyrants, The 2008 Horse Race
"I didn't hate Bush before, but now I really hate him," exclaimed another reform-leaning young woman in a black head scarf with brown trim, who asked not to be identified. "He's damaging everything. He has hurt the reformers, and is bringing all the hard-liners together."
It's called backlash, and it's common to right-wingers the world over. Just like 9/11 brought all the hard-liners together in this country. Escalation is, everywhere and for all time, a right-wing phenomenon. The solution is to reject right-wing demagogy. Sure, there will always be right-wingers agitating for hostility some place in the world. So we must remain alert to the clear danger that the right-wing presents while setting the conditions for minimizing right-wing influence. That's something right-wingers, obviously, can't accomplish.
This is one of the more uneducated comments that's ever graced this blog, but thanks for contributing.
Interesting… (scroll down)
British authorities ruling Palestine hanged several members of the underground Zionist Irgun organization in the 1940s following their conviction on charge of bombing and other violent attacks. Menachem Begin, former Irgun leader and later Prime Minister of Israel, reportedly told a former British Government minister that the executions had “galvanized” his group, which subsequently hanged several British soldiers in retaliation. Menachem Begin said the hangings “got us the recruits that we wanted, and made us more efficient and dedicated to the cause … you were not sentencing our terrorists to death, you were sentencing a lot of your own people, and we decided how many.”
The context of Gen. McPeak's comments seem to be narrowly about the US fight against Al-Qaida. Talking with Iran about that has no direct bearing on some of their other unpleasant policies. How long have we been allies w/ Saudi Arabia, who are at least as unpleasant? You must not care about destroying AQ. Sorry, you cannot conclude that Obama would "negotiate happily and generously" with Iran.