Wednesday, August 13, 2014

It looks like the Most Equal Comrade does indeed do pinpricks

In the course of a CNN discussion between Wolf Blitzer and Gloria Borger about the 'not terrific' optics of the MEC golfing while several crises on the world stage intensify,  Borger makes this basic and all-important point:

Borger added the president needs to be more upfront with Americans about the mission in Iraq.  
"I think he has to tell the American people how he's going to do that without mission creep. How you can cripple ISIS without mission creep?" she said. 

This is the pickle a post-American president finds himself in after he has shot off his mouth about a "dumb war" and leaving behind "a stable Iraq." The peacenik base and indeed a large swath of the war-weary, low-information post-American public has come to expect that there will be no more of that icky involvement in Iraq.  Yet, like a lot of presidents, the MEC is concerned with his legacy, and it's going to be dismal indeed if the ISIS caliphate solidifies, grows, and does nasty things to the West.

So, what to do?  Golf, of course!

9 comments:

  1. Yes that peacenik base of low info humanoids here was as large as 87 per cent disapproving of Cheney aka Iran was something impossible to say about the presidency for him. Still he thinks he can raise his approval levels as the depraved rich oil man he always was.

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  2. What's your justification for the use of the term "depraved"?

    And are we to take your digression from the point at hand to mean you think the MEC has a great Iraq policy?

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  3. He was vice president and vice is a synon u m for depraved? And those crazies in the ME don't give a cap about our policies anywhere. They just want to draw us in to a wider war. So does Israel. And you and their ilk are falling right for it.

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  4. Just try googling cheney depraved. You will find some meaty links. Admittedly, some use the word depraved to describe the attacks on Cheney

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  5. also, my initial commentdid not digress from the subject at handbecause I was addressing your castiga Ton of the huge majority who you called low info because of their opinions in opposition to the way Cheney and his crew fought the fight. I'd consider those who have already forgotten the folly low info and worse, ascribe the term idiocy, if not depravit to those who want to condemn us again to repeat history which shows that war in the middle east is indeed folly and moreover, hugely self destructive for us.

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  6. I wasn't even thinking of Cheney when I called low-info voters by their accurate characterization.

    And let's remember that Iraq was indeed stable with a declining violence rate when "Cheney and his crew" left office.

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  7. How about articulating in your own words the justification for the "depraved" characterization rather than sending me to links?

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  8. And why do you like the fact that Iran and ISIS are each posing an ever-greater direct threat to the US?

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  9. In my own words Cheney is a depraved rich man trying to move the pieces his (and his allies way). He even looks depraved. He is a "suit" of the worst order. This world is his, not ours. We aim to show him different. He and his ilk will not return to power here. Fill me with fear here, omg, another ever-greater direct threat to the US. Maybe, but I haven't seen it yet. You justified the initial incursions back in 2003 by claiming that Iraq held WMDs. None were found so then you said we did it to get Saddam. We got Saddam. What good did that do? You folks are crooked and depraved. Here are pics of Dick looking depraved: https://www.google.com/search?q=dick+cheney+depraved&rlz=2C1KMZB_enUS0537US0582&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ydLtU8T-Cc2xyASv0YAY&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1179&bih=621

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