Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Mmm-bop.



I'm starting to think our friend Hanson doesn't actually follow current affairs very closely:
Democrats said we took our eye off Afghanistan. But if we flee from Iraq, would they then insist on redeploying the 160,000 troops in Afghanistan and engaging in hot pursuit across the nuclear Pakistani border to capture bin Laden’s lieutenants? Or, as we suspect, is the liberal charge that we are neglecting Afghanistan mostly a ploy to criticize operations in Iraq rather than a sincere call for tougher, riskier, and more substantial war making on the Pakistani border?
Obama, two days ago:
"We cannot win a war against the terrorists if we're on the wrong battlefield," Obama said. "America must urgently begin deploying from Iraq and take the fight more effectively to the enemy's home by destroying al-Qaida's leadership along the Afghan-Pakistan border, eliminating their command and control networks and disrupting their funding."
And if we didn't take our eye off Afghanistan, what explains the Taliban's resurgence? Err, moving on.

Then there's this finely crafted row of strawmen:
I doubt we will get that honesty, however, and instead will continue to hear of the neocon conspiracy, or how a few sneaky Jews hikacked the government from Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, and Rumsfeld, or how a conspiracy was waged to trick the American people, involving Hosni Mubarak, Tony Blair, Tommy Franks, French Intelligence, the Democratic Party, et al. who were all on record about Saddam’s WMD, or how ignoramuses in the government had no plan at all how to stabilize Iraq after they promised they had and as I expected.
So to Hanson: everyone who criticzes the war is an anti-Semite, everyone agreed Saddam had nukes, and the Bushies had a great plan for stabilizing Iraq. And --- Iraq is a huge success, Bush is a great President, and Scooter Libby is innocent, and Clinton is to blame for 9/11, and ...

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