Thursday, October 07, 2004
An Interview With Me (You Lucky People, You)
Here are the questions most people ask other thoughtful people--followed with my answers.
If not now, when would the best time be to fight the war in Iraq?
Never. It would be too late.
If not there, where?
In the United States of America. In our cities.
Why Iraq?
Because Iraq presented a perfect opportunity to establish a democratic, albeit fragile system which can contain Iran and Syria. Protecting Israel is a huge component to this policy.
Will there be a draft?
Who knows? From the military reports I've studied the consensus states the modern military's ability to use smaller forces is the new reality. We don't want our military to become a welfare to work program. Highly specialized personnel enhance morale and esprit de corps. We need to let the military do what it does.
Did the invasion of Iraq cause an increase in terrorist numbers?
Of course. That's the point. Get the terrorists into Iraq, kill them there, not here.
Why is it important we stay the course?
Because if we do not, we become the most obvious and vulnerable target. Islamists, the proper name for free-floating Muslim terrorists from everywhere, smell weakness the way they smell blood. If Kerry is elected, all the insurgents need to do is wait.
What if John Kerry is elected president?
I can't contemplate such a catastrophe. I just have to pray the American voter figures this out and remembers the terrorists want to KILL us. Period. John Kerry can't protect me; he's too weak. His idea of capitulation to "summits" makes me know I'll need to gather my family and move to New Zealand or Chile. I'm not kidding. I'm dead serious.
In what other areas is the country in trouble if Kerry wins?
Everything about John Kerry is wrong. He is the most liberal of any politician, maybe since Carter, to be in contention for the top spot. Whether he is talking national health care, which would finally break the medical profession's back, or his terrible ideas about taxation, gun control, many other areas, his election would completely reconstruct American life.
What's all this about Haliburton and Dick Cheney?
Haliburton, for whom Dick Cheney worked years ago, has been given no bid contracts to rebuild Iraq. The appearance of impropriety, as usual, drew criticism. Regardless, Cheney doesn't appear to have been enriched. I think it's naive to think there are not connections amongst government contractors and public officials. It goes with the territory.
Haliburton had the ready experience and personnel to get to Iraq and Afghanistan quickly. It is not a crime to hire someone with the best knowledge and capability to make people's lives better during wartime. Give me a break.
When will Dan Rather take responsibility for his overeager slander against the President?
Never. He has to lie. It's part of that ethos, typical of the powerful elite, whose means always justify the ends. Being a Democrat is never having to say you're sorry, remember.
What do leftists want, anyway?
The country to be theirs for social engineering, utopian expression, secularism that prohibits faith cultures' ability to thrive freely, without interference. With that power comes the ideal that the individual must sacrifice for the greater good. No thanks.
Is Kerry really a leftist?
What do you think? Look at his record and life. I'll try to refrain from saying, "Duh!"
Why has this war been handled so badly?
Yeah, it reminds me of the way the Battle of the Bulge was bungled. Then there was that fiasco at Omaha Beach. God, how the hell they could lose so many at Anzio is beyond me.
Even FDR, who was criticized by antiwar, isolationist people in America before Pearl Harbor. (I've learned to respect President Roosevelt's position prior to the war; it presents a story similar to President Bush's.)
Do I think Kerry will win?
Not if the Clintons have anything to say about it. Their lend lease program of old Clintonistas is a sabotage operation, if I ever saw one.
Senator Clinton will not wait until 2012 to be president. Count on it.
In other words, I'm counting on the Clintons to save us from a Kerry presidency. Go figure.
Thanks for the read.
If not now, when would the best time be to fight the war in Iraq?
Never. It would be too late.
If not there, where?
In the United States of America. In our cities.
Why Iraq?
Because Iraq presented a perfect opportunity to establish a democratic, albeit fragile system which can contain Iran and Syria. Protecting Israel is a huge component to this policy.
Will there be a draft?
Who knows? From the military reports I've studied the consensus states the modern military's ability to use smaller forces is the new reality. We don't want our military to become a welfare to work program. Highly specialized personnel enhance morale and esprit de corps. We need to let the military do what it does.
Did the invasion of Iraq cause an increase in terrorist numbers?
Of course. That's the point. Get the terrorists into Iraq, kill them there, not here.
Why is it important we stay the course?
Because if we do not, we become the most obvious and vulnerable target. Islamists, the proper name for free-floating Muslim terrorists from everywhere, smell weakness the way they smell blood. If Kerry is elected, all the insurgents need to do is wait.
What if John Kerry is elected president?
I can't contemplate such a catastrophe. I just have to pray the American voter figures this out and remembers the terrorists want to KILL us. Period. John Kerry can't protect me; he's too weak. His idea of capitulation to "summits" makes me know I'll need to gather my family and move to New Zealand or Chile. I'm not kidding. I'm dead serious.
In what other areas is the country in trouble if Kerry wins?
Everything about John Kerry is wrong. He is the most liberal of any politician, maybe since Carter, to be in contention for the top spot. Whether he is talking national health care, which would finally break the medical profession's back, or his terrible ideas about taxation, gun control, many other areas, his election would completely reconstruct American life.
What's all this about Haliburton and Dick Cheney?
Haliburton, for whom Dick Cheney worked years ago, has been given no bid contracts to rebuild Iraq. The appearance of impropriety, as usual, drew criticism. Regardless, Cheney doesn't appear to have been enriched. I think it's naive to think there are not connections amongst government contractors and public officials. It goes with the territory.
Haliburton had the ready experience and personnel to get to Iraq and Afghanistan quickly. It is not a crime to hire someone with the best knowledge and capability to make people's lives better during wartime. Give me a break.
When will Dan Rather take responsibility for his overeager slander against the President?
Never. He has to lie. It's part of that ethos, typical of the powerful elite, whose means always justify the ends. Being a Democrat is never having to say you're sorry, remember.
What do leftists want, anyway?
The country to be theirs for social engineering, utopian expression, secularism that prohibits faith cultures' ability to thrive freely, without interference. With that power comes the ideal that the individual must sacrifice for the greater good. No thanks.
Is Kerry really a leftist?
What do you think? Look at his record and life. I'll try to refrain from saying, "Duh!"
Why has this war been handled so badly?
Yeah, it reminds me of the way the Battle of the Bulge was bungled. Then there was that fiasco at Omaha Beach. God, how the hell they could lose so many at Anzio is beyond me.
Even FDR, who was criticized by antiwar, isolationist people in America before Pearl Harbor. (I've learned to respect President Roosevelt's position prior to the war; it presents a story similar to President Bush's.)
Do I think Kerry will win?
Not if the Clintons have anything to say about it. Their lend lease program of old Clintonistas is a sabotage operation, if I ever saw one.
Senator Clinton will not wait until 2012 to be president. Count on it.
In other words, I'm counting on the Clintons to save us from a Kerry presidency. Go figure.
Thanks for the read.
