Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> Well, I am sorry about that. This is an issue that is
> striking a little close to the heart, though. There
> is a pervasive dishonesty that has crept into this
> issue where we have people actively crippling American
> war efforts for short-term partisan advantage - and a
> bunch of very bright people on the list who buy that
> wholesale.
"War efforts"? What war efforts? There was a quick
war which drove Hussein out of power. Now there is an aimless
occupation. I imagine that I support continuing the occupation
more than the Bush Administration does--the impression I get
is that they would just as soon claim a victory and get out.
I see occupying Iraq until it gets back on its feet as an
American responsibility. (And that of our short list of
allies in the war.) If you start something, you need to carry
it through.
So where do you get off claiming that politics must
stop? Is it then unpatriotic to criticize Bush, for the next
few years of the occupation?
> There is something rotten in the state of
> the Democratic party leadership, you might say, and
> the least I expect from people here is to call it.
I agree. They have not articulated a clear vision of
what they propose, leaving a vacuum for the Republicans to
fill with their policies.
---David
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