U.S. Foreign Policy in Good Hands

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For those of you reading about U.S. Foreign Policy and wondering "What the @$#*&!"? RAPH offers a reassuring view at the inner workings of America's approach to the thorny Israeli-Palestinian problems.

And now, a collective sigh of relief is heard.




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Dowd: "Madness as Method": More Evil Dick Cheney Evidence

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by Mondoreb

Another day, another New York Times edition, another Maureen Dowd column. Must mean another story about Evil Dick Cheney and His Minions of Mayhem threatening life as we know it. Dowd takes her cue from the EuroPolitical Handbook: crazy Americans are talking actions, not words. How uncouth.

Warn other countries when they come close to treading on America's interests? Maureen Dowd would rather that we read them a love story. Or her latest NY Times column. Another "Change-the-Channel Moment" from Mo D. and the Times.

More Dowd blather from the New York Times:

He may have lost his buddy in belligerence, Rummy. He may have tapped out the military in Iraq. He may not be able to persuade Congress so easily anymore — except for Hillary — to issue warlike resolutions. He can’t cow Condi into supporting his bullying as he once did, and Bob Gates is doing his best to instill some common sense.

Besides, Cheney is running out of time to wreak global havoc; he’s working for a president who is spending his waning days on the job trying to prevent children from getting health insurance.

One sympathizes with Dowd: she has to write about something to make a living. Evil Dick Cheney is a sure cure for NYT writer's block any day. Nixon, WWIV and other ominous references get thrown into this mix for just the right touch. She closes with:

In other words, once our cowboys have talked their crazy talk, they have to walk their crazy walk.

Maureen Dowd sounds positively European: where the American pejorative du jour is always "cowboy".

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Sanchez's "Nightmare": Finally, A General the Left Can Love

by Mondoreb

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MoveOn.org: "Now that's a general!"
Daily KOS: "Fabulous Job" General!"
Count Basie: "Yessir, That's My Baby!"

Answering critics' allegations that the Left is anti-military, a host of mainstream media and Leftist screedpools paraded retired general, Ricardo Sanchez across the top of their news stories yesterday. No MoveOn.org ads for Sanchez, only admiration for a general the Left clearly respected, agreed with and yes, adored.

From CNN:
WASHINGTON-- A former commander of coalition forces in Iraq issued a harsh assessment of U.S. management of the war, saying that American political leaders cost American lives on the battlefield with their "lust for power."

Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, coalition commander in 2003 and 2004, called the Iraq war "a nightmare with no end in sight," for which he said the Bush administration, the State Department and Congress all share blame.

All but exclaiming, "I'm rehabilitated now!", Sanchez proclaimed his surprising turnaround with a collection of buzzwords and phrases sure to make Code Pink hearts beat faster.

Tears of joy mingled with mochas at the New York Times. Here was a general to believe, and no half-price ad cuts would have to be given. Loving labels such as “living a nightmare with no end in sight”, “catastrophically flawed, unrealistically optimistic war plan” and "catastrophic failure" leaped off the page in the Times' reportage.

Proving that all one has to do to be redeemed in the eyes of the anti-war media groupies is condemn Bush; Sanchez, commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, was now clearly on the side of truth and justice. Ricardo Sanchez, condemned the War in Iraq and finally, the Left has found a real American hero. Whatever the retired general had previously scheduled, time now will have to be set aside for photo ops with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Frank Murtha.

Of the 55-gallon drums of filth Democrats flung at Gen. David Petraeus, the current commander in Iraq, one doesn't remember the label "stupid" being applied. But the impression now is that Petraeus was indeed, "stupid". All he would have had to do to avoid the slurs and arrows of the queue of Democrat midgets was tell them the surge was "desperate", as Sanchez did. Poor Petraeus could have avoided all that trouble if only he'd sung the Sanchez tune. A "catastrophe" here, a "derelict in their duties" there, and he'd have had clear sailing at the Congressional hearings.

Because to the anti-war crowd, a "nightmare" is their wet dream.

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