Left ready to wet itself over McCain saying “there will be other wars”
posted at 11:35 am on January 28, 2008 by Allahpundit
Remind me, wasn’t it St. Barack himself, prince of peace, who threatened to go marching into the Pakistani tribal areas to clean out the jihadist sewer if Musharraf wouldn’t do it himself? And which unhinged neocon was it who said this just last month?
To help our forces recover from Iraq and prepare them to confront the full range of twenty-first-century threats, I will work to expand and modernize the military so that fighting wars no longer comes at the expense of deployments for long-term deterrence, military readiness, or responses to urgent needs at home.
Yes, there will be more confrontations with jihadists, hopefully more on the scale of the proxy Somalia/Ethiopia conflict last year than any sort of mass invasion. That’s all McCain’s saying, but HuffPo knows a good talking point when it sees one. So it’s duly flagged and ready for use in a scaremongering campaign ad, assuming Maverick makes it past Romney and advances to the general.
Do note one of his greatest strengths on display here, though. Not his hawkishness or his willingness to talk “straight” about it, but the extent to which the media — in the unlikely person of Mika Brzezinski, daughter of Jimmy Carter’s NSA — is willing to cut him the kind of slack that Bush would never, ever get. It’ll be a lot easier to defend the war on terror in the media with McCain as president. No small advantage.
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Now there’s a dusty old name…I haven’t seen that sketch for at least ten years. Still remember it was funny!
MelonCollie on March 16, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Cheers:)
There is some amazing irony in your commentary – someone who sounds remarkably like a spoiled child calling me “juvenile” and “deliberately obtuse” for not being able to make sense of your delusional fantasies. I’ll have to leave it to others to make sense of your blatherings – which begin with the false premise- that the narcissistic Marxist grifter Obama and Romney are like ideological fraternal twins. It then wanders off into something I can’t comprehend. I gather it has something to do with being pissed off that Sarah Palin didn’t run as a third party Tea Party candidate, and thus being left with no choice but to stomp your foot, pick up your ball, and stay home? Or maybe you had Ron Paul in mind? Who the hell knows. I’m not going to waste any more time trying to make sense of your nonsensical ‘analysis’.
Buy Danish on March 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Romney did not rise to the occasion in the election, so why expect him to do so here?
Sherman1864 on March 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM
He lost by 3%, not a blow out, but a loss is a loss. He is a good and accomplished man who would have been a far better president than Obama who had no real accomplishments before his political life began. Romney isn’t a conservative and maybe that is why he lost but he is a respectable and humble man.
Dollayo on March 17, 2013 at 2:05 AM
He should be sorry he lost because he passed on the opportunity to unseat the Liar of Benghazi (oh, yes, where is that report now? What has the admnistration discovered?).
In a sense, this lack of political judgment disqualified him. We should have known not to nominate a person unable to beat McCain.
virgo on March 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM
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