Note to liberals
You got what you deserve. You supported a man who said Afghanistan was the “war of necessity” without ever questioning his policies and your dominance of the media ensured that hard-hitting questions necessary for the functioning of a Presidential democracy to function properly were never articulated. Now here we are, with the left infuriated that this man is going through with what he said. Of course, he already has said all of this, back in March, when he sent 21,000 troops to Afghanistan. Back then, I don’t think a lot of you were paying attention. Maybe you were still mindlessly following him, thinking that he had to do this to deliver on cap-and-trade, or healthcare, or gays in the military, or some other holy grail of modern American liberalism. What is frustrating to all of us on the right is that this man called Iraq a “dumb war,” a “war of choice” while Afghanistan was the “central front” and a “war of necessity.” This goes all the way back to the 2004 campaign and before. Now that you’re in charge, you want to run because that’s all you ever know how to do. I mean, shit, the American left thought Kosovo was a quagmire, they thought Grenada might be the next Vietnam. I have no idea what happened to the left to make it so afraid of using force as a component of policy. It was probably the mess you started in Vietnam, or perhaps the thought of the millions you then consigned to misery when you shut off the money to Saigon in 1975. I just wish you could be honest and come out and say it. I know you don’t care that this surge will cost $30 billion on top of all the other expenses. I know you don’t care about the deficit. The “stimulus” that has failed, the trillion dollar health care bill, new unemployment benefits, the bailouts, these all cost far more. “Nation building at home”? Is that the best you and your failed, fragmented rhetoric can come up with? In an industrialized country, you don’t nation build, you just spend a ton of money that doesn’t have to be spent because there’s a well-functioning private sector. People in Afghanistan are getting their hands cut off by people who want to take the world back to the 8th Century, AQ and the Taliban want to use Afghanistan as a base to take out Pakistan (and remember, the Pakistanis don’t trust us because we always bail on them…way to reinforce this idea) and take their nukes. And you people want to build more goddamn bridges with tax dollars. Tom Friedman is willing to be a little less secure in order to “fix” the country. This is unbelievable. Obviously, the left is not serious and can’t be trusted to govern.
And don’t get me started on the issue of withdrawal if we really are planning on a full pull out starting in July 2011. Who wants to be the last man to die for a war we’re declaring defeat in?
