And its not with Democrats!

What a tool.

What he hasn’t thought through is that this makes Williams himself evil. Throughout history, people like him have a lot more blood on their hands than those who confront evil will ever have, and the blood on their hands is that of innocents, not tyrants.

When you talk to them, do you feel like, when he says the crazy things that he says–and he says crazy things–is he playing to his base? Is this just a politician? Because, wasn’t that the mistake we made with Saddam Hussein? His braggadocio, his all those things, were of necessity, because he has to play to this base. Are we misinterpreting their belligerence, and thinking it’s baiting us into a war, when it’s just a way to stay in power?

Wait… isn’t this a discription of Williams’ “Night with the King” with Obama during his “We are the World” Tour?

Since Vietnam, our enemies have known that their most useful tool is our MSM.

Brian Williams is one such tool.

Brian Williams should be restricted to the cartoon network. There is no reason to listen to a word uttered by him.

NoDonkey on August 2, 2008 at 11:08 AM

I thought he was trying to break into comedy. It seems all the comedians these days are going into politics (and are not funny anymore), so it would make sense that the news people are switching over too…!

We’ll send Iran a really nasty letter…and wait until they actually nuke us…because we all hate the Bush Doctrine of preemption…and then we’ll……..Oh!…wait!!!

Until we have a nuclear explosion go off in America or Israel and discover that the Iranians were behind the whole thing.
jasoneverts on August 1, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Somehow the lefties will spin that as Americas fault too.

Exactly, this clown has a $5,000 suit, a $600 haircut, a $200 tie and NO responsiblity for anything.

Brian Williams should be restricted to the cartoon network. There is no reason to listen to a word uttered by him.

Just thought I’d toss that out there…

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM

Excellent post,
Appeasement has done nothing but get a lot of people killed.

and they remembered that last time, after the Gulf War, when Ameica said here we come and the cavalry was just over the horizon…and thousands and thousands of iraqis were slaughterd by Saddam for the tiniest hint of being pro-US or anti-Saddam.

People caving in to the oppressors, the radical-chic types, the useful idiots, really hurts.

UN sponsored or not,I thought leaving the Iraqi people hanging and allowing Saddam to stay in power was a huge mistake in the first gulf war.

We (correction…the men and women in uniform)have paid dearly for that mistake because it took a lot of treasure and blood to get them to trust us this time,and the yelling
of “retreat” by the democratic party made this situation even worse.

Commitment Motivates Iraqis, Not Threats of Withdrawal
Amy Proctor
http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/trackback/1745641
http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/2008/4/8/commitment-motivates-iraqis-not-threats-of-withdrawal.html

Maj. Gen. (MG) Rick Lynch, Commander of Multi-National Division-Center last week:

MG Lynch: What we have found is, the local population as a result of seeing the patrol base come forward and two questions. The first question is, “Are you staying?” and when the local population is convinced that we’re going to stay, the next question is, “How can we help?”

I like this type of leadership when it comes to the enemies of Freedom around the world:

Incredible! George S Patton’s New Speech-Iraq & modern world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynLgJFBxSs

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:22 AM

I know the feeling. They say things improve with age – but they are wrong on fingers, and eyes, and legs, and …

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM

Thanks for both the permission and the update. I know they say that hope springs eternal, I just like it when it gets one in the basket occasionally.

Print it!

Gail Sheehy, no arch-Conservative by any means, in her 1990 biography on Gorbachev ["The Man Who Changed the World"] goes in to a bit of detail on the “Evil Empire” effect on Soviet citizens. I talked to a lot of Soviets in the 80′s and a lot of former Soviets in the ’90′s and got the same insight.

Have talked to Iraqis recently here in the US and my son is still in internet contact with a number of young Iraqis he befriended during his tour in Fallujah and Ramadi and the Iraqi “hope” thing, the basis for the Awakening, is valid.

As for Iran…still meet up with Iranian emigre friends, a few going back to the early 1980′s, who validate the current Iranian “hope” thing as well. Will not go into any detail as to anything covert regarding Iran because, well, it’s covert…and should stay that way.

Hitler? Stalin? [Hussein] They’re just playing their base.

amerpundit on August 1, 2008 at 10:54 PM

News liberals are a special kind of stupid.

coldwarrior on August 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM

If only that could be printed!

But, pretty much unknown to just about everyone in the West, in the US especially, Russians themselves…in their conversations with each other…and conversations with a small number of foreigners they encountered…started referring to the USSR jokingly as “the Evil Empire.”

Meanwhile, Reagan kept getting skewered by the press, and a lot of us who were on the front lines had to contend with “you really don’t believe this evil empire cr*ap, do you?” by colleagues over at State, or even a few family members, on a daily basis.

It became a lighthearted “code word” among the Russians indicating whether or not they were aparatchiki or chernozhopa, or if they were actually intelligent and thinking people who saw past the posters of Lenin and did not believe the Communist Party garbage.

Talking to defectors and emigres, a number of us found more and more that that Reagan “Evil Empire” thing was being received by Russians and the Baltic nationalities and Ukrainians to a huge degree as a good thing, a sign of hope, a sign that the West, and the United States in particular, cared about “them”. No small thing when you’re locked up in a nation controlled by the KGB and all sorts of internal controls, and thought police, sending anyone who dissented to a psych ward or to the gulag. One could lose their job and be forced into hard or soft exile for merely having a western magazine or something American in their posession [unless you were a member of the Party elite.]

One cannot imagine how something simple like “evil empire” can get under the skin and in to the hearts of somebody who is being oppressed unless you’ve been there, seen it up close, dealt with it directly.

That lengthy intro said…

As for Iran…Iran had (hopefully still has) a very large literate educated class..really large, compared to the rest of the region…and almost all of them have some sort of connection to the United States (family members who immigrated, parent’s contact with Americans before the fall of the Shah, pirated CD’s and DVD’s) and when they hear an American President say “The mullahs must go!” it gets a reaction, a good reaction, among a huge segment in Iran. Gives them hope.

When they hear an American politician like an Obama say little Ahmadinejad is not such a threat, or that we must “talk” to him with no preconditions, it, too, has a direct effect on a lot of Iranians. A bad effect. Gets them to believe that the US is buying this garbage coming from Ahmadinejad. It eats away at hope. When they hear or watch American pundits thanks to illicit sat dishes and the internet, of course, and see that people of influence in America are buying Ahmadinejad’s rap hook, line and sinker, it doesn’t do them a lot of good in the morale department.

Never underestimate the power of a simple word or phrase smuggled in to an oppressed nation. That simple musical Morse code “V” [that first bar from Beethoven's Fifth] was used all across Nazi occupied Europe by the oppressed to indicate if they were good guys or bad guys..and it had a serious positive effect on hope.

Today, dealing with Iran…and talk to Iraqis and their attitudes a couple years ago compared to today when all they heard was we have to get out, that Iraq is a failure, that we should just let them kill each other off….a huge portion of the Iraqi population stayed home, hid out, praying and hoping that somehow, someway, things would get better or at least calm down enough to live…and they remembered that last time, after the Gulf War, when Ameica said here we come and the cavalry was just over the horizon…and thousands and thousands of iraqis were slaughterd by Saddam for the tiniest hint of being pro-US or anti-Saddam.

People caving in to the oppressors, the radical-chic types, the useful idiots, really hurts.

So when people in Iran hear that we are going to talk to Ahmadinejad with no pre-conditions, or that once again we are going to let Ahmadinejad continue his 12th Iman inspired nuke program, or that his rattling and railing about nukin’ the US isn’t anything to worry about, or that Iran is a little country that poses no threat at all to the US or the West, well, it makes it more and more difficult for Iranians to foster any sort of hope of getting out from under the heel of Ahmadinejad and the mullahs. It also makes it damn difficult for any sort of covert support and covert action within Iran to take root as well. Why risk building an underground, arming a resistance, why risk your life or that of your family, when the US (or anyone in the West) their only real source of hope doesn’t really care about them anyway?

Just thought I’d toss that out there…

Yeah, can access with Safari but not IE7.

brtex on August 1, 2008 at 11:09 PM

I’m not having any problems with Firefox either.

You realize briefly you’re in this courtyard where the CIA would have given thousands of dollars just to see up-close.

What makes you think they havent seen it Brian? We do have satellites you know.

It’s never; we have very little human intelligence in Iran.

We dont have much of it here either, especially among the media.

Now a multitude of reports confirming earlier stories of Saddams other chemical and Bio WMD being transported to Syria started popping this week.

But yeah, he was playing to his base.

And Ahmawhackjob is making cough syrup with all those centrifuges.