Reply #131: Perceived connections?

[sandnsea]

Well there you go. Far be it for the left to give a shit about truth and lies, (as they rail against everybody else for their lies), to look at the truth about those "perceived connections". Or anything else. Like what was really said last year at the Grand Canyon or about ending the war. Last year and before. Kerry's stance on the war hasn't softened at all, it's exactly the same as it's always been. Stabilize Iraq as best as we can and get out. At varying points he thought the UN or NATO or the Arab League could help create a better outcome than what we have now, but as Bush has continued to fuck up and limit those options, Kerry has had to change his strategy on what could be accomplished in Iraq. As he's repeatedly said, we only had a limited amount of time for an optimum result, since we were already there and couldn't turn back the clock.

But if you could go back 2 years and have Kerry in charge, with his plan in Iraq, would you? UN, NATO, regional cooperation, Iraqi driven reconstruction, no Fallujahs, no Abu Ghraib, no search & destroy. Hmm?

The left childishly insisted that the only two choices were "out now" or warmonger. Facing the reality that the real choices were Bush's death and destruction OR ANY better course just didn't enter your mind. You called any number of better strategies "stay the course" instead of recognizing them for distinctly different approaches, approaches that might well have put Iraq in a much better place today and have our troops at home. How many people have to die before the left gets it through their thick heads that most of the time the not perfect solution is the only one you're going to get and you better take it if you want to keep people alive.

All of this is why I lost respect for much of the anti-war activists quite some time ago. Not all, but most. And when all of this is going on, they don't seem like my political allies at all.