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Peace
Prize Boy, who will cede dominion over Afghanistan to the Taliban, is
now the leading candidate for a Nobel Genocide Award. I dreamed last night
(and was of course very disturbed by it) that returning soldiers from
the Middle East executed a very bloody coup against this government.
If we're to live under a dictatorship, better one that believes so
forcefully in the Constitution that they're willing to give their lives
to defend it. That was the dream. It replaced my formerly recurring
dream about being confused over which WMD to smuggle in to the next
SOTU address Flame thrower seems to work best so far. Where the heck
are these nightmares coming from? Anyway, to temper this tantrum of
mine, here's Mark Steyn (excerpted)
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Like Judi Romaine, he works hard to “create our worlds in our
conversations”. Why, only the other day, very conversationally, the
administration floated the trial balloon that it could live with the
Taliban returning to government in Afghanistan. A lot of Afghans won’t
be living with it, but that’s their lookout.
This is — how to put this delicately? — something of a recalibration
of Obama’s previous position. From about a year after the fall of
Baghdad, Democrats adopted the line that Bush’s war in Iraq was an
unnecessary distraction from the real war, the good war, the one in
Afghanistan that everyone — Dems, Europeans, all the nice people — were
right behind, one hundred per cent.
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But that was then and this is now. As the historian Robert Dallek told
Obama recently, “War kills off great reform movements.” As the
Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne reminded the president, his supporters
voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and
other domestic issues. Obama’s priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why
squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund
feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a
functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?
Gosh, given their many assertions that Afghanistan is “a war we have to
win” (Obama to the VFW, August 2008), you might almost think, pace Judi
Romaine, that it’s the president and water-bearers like Gunga Dionne
who are the “cynics.”
In a recent speech to the Manhattan Institute, Charles Krauthammer
pointed out that, in diminishing American power abroad to advance
statism at home, Obama and the American people will be choosing decline.
There are legitimate questions about our war aims in Afghanistan, and
about the strategy necessary to achieve them. But eight years after
being toppled, the Taliban will see their return to power as a great
victory over the Great Satan, and so will the angry young men from
Toronto to Yorkshire to Chechnya to Indonesia who graduated from
Afghanistan’s Camp Jihad during the 1990s.
And so will the rest of the world: They will understand that the modern
era’s ordnungsmacht (the “order maker”) has chosen decline. [No Laughing Matter]
The video Mr. Steyn refers to in the opening moments is this SNL clip.
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