Lefty Nutroots In Denial Over Carl Levin
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Poor lefty nutroots. You have to feel for them. First, Nancy and Jack get scared of us and back away from their plan to bleed our troops to death.
Now, Carl Levin has called for military engagement with Syria and Iran. What to do? Well, the first stage of grief is denial, and we have the perfect example of this over at Kos. Something over there quoted Carl Levin saying we needed to "take action" and responded:
Oh, right. Republicans have no subtlety. "Action" can only mean bombs! How much action is packed in to "talks" or even "sanctions." None! Boring! Let's send the boys off to die!
Levin, I would assume, is probably not too keen on bombing the rest of the Middle East.
Let's review:
1. Levin was speaking at an Armed Services Committee hearing, not a Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing.
2. He was asking about the military's plan, not the State Department's plan.
3. Then, of course, still talking about the military, Levin asked, "Does the military have a plan to go into Syria?"
So, while I understand the necessity in going through the stages of grief at this point, and denial is the first place a nutroot would arrive, we must ask ourselves this question:
When is the last time the military went into any country with a *diplomatic* plan?
Sorry nutroots. Levin wants to "take action" against Syria -- and he doesn't mean holding hands at a gay marriage ceremony singing kumbaya with Assad.
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If the surge works, give it another week and they will forget anybody is in Iraq
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And some people actually fell for it *sigh*
Your analysis of what was said is absurd..
Carl Levin is obviously stating that Republicans depend too much on military force as a foreign policy tool as THE foreign policy tool. Direct diplomacy and negotiations are considered an aberation. He(Levin) was being sarcastic without any doubt.
In our great country, the military does not establish foreign policy, whether right or wrong, the civilian government has that job. BushCo has decided that we can bomb the MidEast into submission. Unfortunately the MidEast has not cowered under the threat.... Now what do you do.?.
Another Shock-n-Awe on the horizion.. Unless BushCo plans to take the entire MidEast out, his foreign policy WILL NOT WORK.
Keep dreaming. Halliburton's money was well spent, is all I know.
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The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
You wrote:
Carl Levin is obviously stating that Republicans depend too much on military force as a foreign policy tool as THE foreign policy tool.
How exactly do you explain our policies these last 6 years towards such places as North Korea, Iran, Palestine, Libya, etc.?
Where's the military action against China?
How do you explain Reagan's policies towards the Soviet bloc?
Direct diplomacy and negotiations are considered an aberation.
Well, that's because we've followed Santayana's advice and learned from history. There are people you should negotiate with, people you should negotiate with along with a credible threat of force, and people you simply need to destroy.
The hard part of this is being able to recognize who falls into what category -- and when you have to move somebody from one category to the next.
In hindsight, if the powers of Europe had been better at this in the 1930s than they were, literally millions of lives could've been spared. But, like you, they were so averse to another war that they felt they had to rely on "direct diplomacy and negotiations" to avert war rather than hasten one.
By the time they recognized that war was inevitable, on a timetable not of their choosing, it was too late. The Germans were not only very well-armed, they and the Italians both had also claimed several strategically critical territories.
I don't think the problem is that the modern right is too war-thirsty....I think the problem is that the modern left is too war averse.
I keep forgetting the world runs on internet time.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Scroll down to the Levin clip, the one with his picture. Then get back to us on absurdity, from a personal perspective.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Is nothing if not expert at avoiding reality.
the military does have a plan for Syria, Iran, N. Korea, and if worst camoes to worst, for New Zealand as well. The military's job is to be ready. I get sick and tired of people who deliberately conflate having a plan in place with immediately intending to invade.
One place we didn't have a plan for in the late 40's was Korea. Take one look at what happened to Task Force Smith. It wasn't war, it was murder. Kos soldiered once himself, he should know that and point it out to people who post diaries on his site.
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If the Clinton administration is anything to go by, Democrats use bombs as a substitute for actually doing something.
I believe it is still the case that Clinton dropped more bombs on Iraq than his predecessor and successor put together. Took out a lot of Iraqi civilians, but left Saddam and family in their palaces.
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This comes from having numerous and large tumors on the brain.
But sympathy is not called for, they think themselves wits & insanity is bliss !
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville