Wasting Time With Alex

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Slow days

In case it is not obvious I have been either too busy with work or too busy enjoying time off from everything these last few weeks. So bogging has been light if non-existent. Unfortunately work still looms large so my frequency of adding new commentary will remain low. Hopefully this rut will correct itself by the new year. Let me take this opportunity to wish all happy holidays in advance since I ended up missing the Thanksgiving announcement.

Friday, November 17, 2006

Playing with power

Wisdom from Michael Ledeen

Micheal Le has a great article dealing with what needs to be done to win this conflict we are stuck in. Our problem is that the people making the decisions have failed to identify that the instability in Iraq is a direct result of the fact that the conflict stretches far outside the borders of Iraq into Iran, Syria, and the Palestinian enclaves - or they know this and do nothing, or close to nothing about it, which is worse - and that unless we tackle all the culprits, we can not move to a victory. The issue is that we are all asking the wrong questions and hence not seeing the real solution.

The Baker/Hamilton Commission has a chance to dramatically reshape our thinking about American foreign policy, if only it will ask the right question. They should follow the guidance of one of the last century’s most brilliant thinkers, Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein asks an apparently straightforward question: what do all games have in common? He ties himself in mental knots trying to get the answer, but nothing works. Finally he realizes that the question was posed wrongly. It should have been: Is there anything all games have in common? That’s the real question (and the real answer is “not much"), but the language of the first question tricked him into searching for an answer that does not exist.

Our strategists are constantly asked, how can we win the war in Iraq? But it is the wrong question, and therefore has no correct answer. Read Reuel Gerecht in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: “(The Baker/Hamilton Commission) cannot escape from an unavoidable reality: We either declare defeat and withdraw completely tout de suite, or we surge troops into Baghdad and fight. The ISG will surely try to find some middle ground between these positions, which, of course, doesn’t exist.”

EXACTLY! I have been pointing out that we can never define a winning strategy in Iraq as long as we allow Iran, their proxy Syria, Saudi Arabia, or al Qaeda to meddle and disrupt indefinitely while only having to put up cash, supplies, and the occasional training camp for radicals.

Instead of trapping themselves in an imaginary quagmire, the commissioners can help us face the real war. What’s going on in Iraq is not “the war,” which is raging over the entire world. The real question — the life and death question — is: How can we win the war in the Middle East, which now extends from Afghanistan to Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, and Somalia?

That question forces us to devise a strategy to deal with multiple enemies instead of limiting our strategic thinking to the Iraqi insurgency alone. It forces us to confront the terror masters in Tehran and Syria as well as the killers in Iraq. If we ask how to win in Iraq alone, we are led into a fool’s errand of trying to convince our sworn enemies-Iran has been at war with us for twenty-seven years —to act like friends. But if we ask how to win the war, we can see that we have many good cards to play, and many real allies, from the Iranian and Syrian people to the millions of Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Syria, to several other oppressed groups throughout the region, and even to leaders who today denounce us.

And there you have it. The sad part is that while this reality and the right course of action escapes us, it has not escaped the Iraqis, and especially, the Iraqi leadership. Many people have been angry or disappointed by Maliki, but if you were in his shoes would you do any different than he is?

Take Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki, for example. Several commentators flew into a rage when Maliki went to Tehran to kiss the turban of Supreme Leader Khamenei, as if this were an expression of Maliki’s deep affection for his neighbors. It isn’t, but Maliki knows they can blow him up, kidnap his relatives, and blackmail his friends. He has no reason to believe that we are going to save him from the Iranians, nor indeed that we are going to win this thing at all. From his point of view, we’re bugging out of the real war, and all the talk about negotiating with Damascus and Tehran can only reinforce this belief. He undoubtedly believes — don’t you? — that we are just marking time until we can dump it all in his lap. Very few Iraqi Shiites dream of living in an Iranian-style Islamic Republic, but they all know that if we lose, they will have to come to terms with Tehran. Maliki is trying to save his neck. Who wouldn’t?

The same applies to the fighting on the ground. Just as Iraqi leaders must come to terms with the Iranians and the Syrians if they believe we will lose, so individual Iraqis, Sunni, or Shiite, urban or tribal, have to stay away from American soldiers. Above all, they must not be seen to be helping us. If we are going to lose and leave, anyone who helps us will lose and die.

Of course those that have forever wanted to limit the WoT to killing bin Laden and firing a few cruise missiles at Afghanistan and not this current protracted but absolutely necessary conflict will not like these facts and are part of the reason why we remain focused on the wrong question and hence the wrong solution. What we asy or do is heard. I have had repeated arguments with people that have gotten furious that I point out to them that when they “dissent” and demand we “cut & run” this message is taken seriously by both the bad guys and the Iraqis with devastating consequences. Of course these moonbat never see the damage they do, and if they do, they do not care.

In like manner, some Middle Eastern anti-Americanism has less to do with religious or cultural convictions — even when it is expressed in religious language — than with the brutal calculus of winning and losing. Thousands of Syrian Sunnis are now converting to Shiism, and I don’t think they have had an epiphany. They see Hezbollah winning, which means Iran is expanding its domain. Some of the rage against the United States stems from a mixture of anger and fear at a country that often seems ready to pack up and go home. They must surely see the American election results as confirmation of this trend, and no amount of sweet talk from the diplomats or Karen Hughes can undo those harsh facts. The antiwar Leftists at home are not the only ones looking at Iraq as an Arabic-speaking version of Vietnam.

There is another aspect of this that Ledeen doesn’t address, likely because it bears very little impact on what he is trying to communicate to us, but it is just as devastating. Just as detremental to our cause as the American losses like Vietnam shape the Arab psyche and lead them to conclude America can not win, is the desire for us to lose that dominates so many on the radical left and leads them to actively take actions to help us lose. We have an active element that really believes America needs to lose this conflict so it follows the European’s lead and gives up war. The consequences of this ridiculous belief, never sinking in with these moonbat, pot smoking, free-sex radicals. Anyway back to the issue at hand.

None of the various schemes put forward in our public debate to “solve” Iraq can work — although much can be done to improve conditions — because they all inevitably assume that Iraq can be “solved” by itself. That includes the call for more troops on the ground. Even if you believe that those troops will dramatically improve security, it still doesn’t address the central question: can the people of the region believe we are going to win? They won’t believe it until they see us waging war effectively, which means we have to be able to threaten Iran and Syria with defeat.

It requires an Iran/Syria policy. Iran declared war against us 27 years ago and has waged it relentlessly, but we have yet to respond. It is astonishing how many diplomats and spooks actually believe Syria is a friend, when Assad drinks our blood from the same glass as Khamenei. Serious policies must aim at regime change in Tehran and Damascus. This does not require a military invasion of either country, but it does require active support for anti-regime political groups, combined with an explicit declaration that we want an end to the tyrannies. As a starter, it would be nice to have the Justice Department indict the Iranian leaders, following the example of Argentina, which just issued arrest warrants for former president Rafsanjani and his henchmen, who presided over the Hezbollah bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires in 1996.

We do not have great intelligence on Iran, but we do know a lot about the sentiments of the overwhelming majority of Iranians, thanks to public-opinion polls conducted by the mullahs themselves. Those polls show upwards of seventy percent of Iranians — that would be 50 million people, mostly younger than 30 — who do not like the regime and want it changed. Those are terrific numbers for us and terrifying numbers for the mullahs, which is why they frantically arrest, torture and kill anyone who openly criticizes them, and why they have destroyed all remnants of free press, and why they are censoring Internet use, satellite-TV access, and cell phones. They, and their Syrian allies, know where their doom lies.

I agree with Michael Ledeen that unless we ask the right questions and formulate the right policies we are not going to win in Iraq. But unlike the moonbat I mention above that that would see this loss as a win for their idiotic ideology, I am not that crazy. If we lose this conflict it will not only follow us home, but it will blanket the world. Freedom as we know it is at stake. If people thought the Dark Ages were bad, what will come if we fail now is going to make that look like a picnic. And again for the retards that claim it has been 3 years and it should have been over by now: get real.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

More on Rummy, Iraq, Iran, and Middle Eastern stability..

Its seems some other people are catching on to the reality that our problem in Iraq isn’t that we have a civil war, but that we are fighting - or if you want to be accurate, not fighting - an Iranian proxy war. I firmly believe that Rummy knew this and therefore never accepted nor believed in, and therefore opposed sending more American troops - the “more boots on the ground” mentality - to Iraq. All more troops would have done was give the enemy more targets. Rumsfeld understood the reality that as long as Iran itself didn’t get stopped the flow of cash & mIts seems some other people are catching on to the reality that our problem in Iraq isn’t that we have a civil war, but that we are fighting - or if you want to be accurate, not fighting - an Iranian proxy war. I firmly believe that Rummy knew this and therefore never accepted nor believed in, and therefore opposed sending more American troops - the “more boots on the ground” mentality - to Iraq. All more troops would have done was give the enemy more targets. Rumsfeld understood the reality that as long as Iran itself didn’t get stopped the flow of cash & material and the training to create replacement terrorists would never affected. But the US could not simple point out Iran was behind most of the protracted and targeted violence in Iraq and then mobilize and go after Iran in the environment America found itself after the concerted effort to rewrite history by the Bush-hating media. Remember that before the recent rewrite about if Saddam was dangerous or not, every democrat during the Bill Clinton presidency, every intelligence agency in the world - from the Russian to the French, Mossad, the CIA, and even the corrupt UN which was profiting from helping Saddam sell oil on the black market - believed Saddam had WMD or WMD programs he could activate in a flash, and thus was a dangerous loose canon. Especially after the lessons of 9-11. In order to give the left a good campaign issue, and of course to Bash Bush, they all made it look like the US invaded Iraq on not just bad information, but purposeful falsified information. Combined with the orchestrated campaign of bad news - and both Iran and al Qaeda were more than happy to give the MSM all the bad news it wanted so they could help the party they felt would be easiest for them to manipulate win an election - that demoralized the American people, another conflict with Iran, would have been impossible to sell.

So I believe Rummy & the WH went with the strategy of waiting until the Iranian nuclear issue got to the point only a military solution would remain - and that is still going to be the only way I believe Iran gets dissuaded from making and likely using nukes, especially after this last election and how it confirmed to them they can influence our political landscape and thus foreign policies with proxy violence - to make this move. Unfortunately for Rumsfeld his attempt to wait out the Iranian bomb crisis and to use that as a reason to finally go into Iran and clean house, didn’t come fast enough to save him. But this reality still remains on the ground. Unless we strike directly at Iran, all Iran has to keep doing is spend cash, provide training & materiel, and recruit people that are willing to die (and there are tons of those) to keep Iraq from stabilizing. Think of this as trying to stop your full bathtub from flowing over without being able to shut down the water faucets or unplugging the drain.

The reality is that as long as we do not pound Iran, we are fighting a losing war in Iraq. If we are not willing to take on Iran we should just accept that we lack the will to deal with this situation and not be surprised when we end up forced to fight in a much costlier and unsure conflict that Iran will start when the tables are turned in their favor. Part of me also wonders if we should also not just pull our troops out and not leave them there to die for a lost cause. Of course, that also means we should be prepared for that conflict with Iran to come our way much quicker as they step in to fill in the vacuum we will leave while at the same time greatly enhance both their control of ME oil and their cash influx from the sale of that oil. Sounds like a catch 22. Damned if we do and damned if we don’t. The truth is that somewhere down the line there will be a fight and every day that goes bye makes tips the balance more and more in favor of the enemy.

Stability in the ME will only come when this current regime of brutal bastards in Iran is broken. As long as they drive the agenda we are heading for a global war. Eventually the West will either have to capitulate to them or fight them. It will not be pretty. Of course the Jew-haters, not just in the Middle East but in Europe & America too, will tell you that if we but burn Israel off the map - preferably with all the Jews there so they burn too - all would be well. Do not buy into that. Even if there was no Israel today these people would be at our throats. Iran wants to lead the global Jihad that will make everyone a Muslim like them, and the only way we stop that is by wiping out those that believe & want that. There is no compromise with these people. I hope we realize that sooner than later. How many of us die eventually depends on that.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Send them all to Rome

Another idiot socialist globalist wearing robes has said he thinks countries that build fences to keep out illegal immigrants are inhuman. Never mind the idiotic fact that this fence is about stopping illegal immigration and trying to gain control of whom gets to come & go in your country. I bet if there were people battering down the Vatican in Rome this guy would have a different opinion. Notice how the left never has anything good to say about religious people unless they agree with them. Hey libtards, this guy also believes homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, contraception, and especially abortions are all cardinal sins. Are you going to quote him on those issues and agree with him or just the ones you like? Anyway, the left has already made it clear they intend to stop the fence from being built. They also plan to pass a minimum wage hike, which is then going to cost people jobs and make the need for more illegals bigger, so this is a double whammy. Enjoy!

Nizbollah wants control of Lebanon

Hizbollah, the terrorist organization that is financed and run by Iran & Syria is trying to make sure Lebanon remains a beholden fiefdom by political means. It is now demanding a majority in the Lebanese government so it can veto anything that Syria & Iran do not want. The Lebanese are caught between a rock and a hard place. Even though Syria, which has ruled Lebanon since Israel left it back in 1982 but was recently “supposedly forced out by a UN vote”, is no longer supposed to meddle, Bashir Assad is not ready to give up that cash cow. Neither is Iran, Syria’s sponsor, which uses Hizbollah as a means to project power in the area and to attack Israel and avoid a direct confrontation. In the mean time the UN is wasting time giving Israel a hard time. Anyone still doubt the UN is a useless relic and needs to simply be done away with? Iran wants to conntrol the Middle East and doesn’t care how many people it must murder to do so. In the mean time the Lebanese people suffer without need.

Iran not even hiding it anymore

Well with the West unable to accept the fact that nothing but brutal force is respected and the only way to get rid of disruptive elements like Iran and Syria, it is no wonder that the Iranians have no fear about communicating to us all that they are almost there. Except we are discussing the leaders of a nation which has repeatedly pointed out it wants to wipe out the sole working democracy in the Middle East and the US off the world map - so it can Islamify the world and bring about the end-of-times - working on perfecting it’s nuclear cycle. And how do the Western leaders react? Well the Brits that up until now seemed to be sane, have borrowed a page from the Chinese/Russian/French play-book and seem to have decided that kissing ass and hoping they are not the first targets works for them. After all, Iran has the US and those pesky Jews in their sights and either country being blanketed by mushroom clouds gives the Brits plenty of time to nuke first and ask questions later. Even Bush, now cowed by the recent donkey electoral sweep and advised by a bunch of stability first old-timers that all once embraced dictators like Saddam in the name of stability (funny how the very left which also is madly in love with this new approach made so much hay about Rummy shaking hands with Saddam but now love Baker & his crew - whom were the original architects of the plan for the US to side with Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war - and this new idea that we need to make nice with the dictators instead of pounding them out of existence), has gone off his rocker.

And before the lefty nutjobs start telling us all there is no connection between Iran and 9-11 - they have always held this idiotic idea that the only terrorists or terrorist supporters the US had a right to go after were the ones that were in active and obvious agreement with al Qaeda like the Taliban in Afghanistan and nobody else - and that we have no legitimate reason to go after Iran, digest this piece of information. Iran wants to be the top terrorist dog. They have taken a good look at their current tactics, determined that a nuclear umbrella will give them the cover they need to wage unrestricted terror war against their neighbors & the West,, expect China & Russia to block everything for them, and plan to become a player. I hear many saying that iIan is being pragmatic and just trying to be come the main power in the ME and that the rest is all rhetoric. I do not buy it. The Iranians have told us since their 1979 revolution that they have a grander plan, and that plan involves spreading their brand of Islam all over the planet by force. Now they tell us they want to bring on the end of times. They truly believe that another global Jihad where nukes get used and millions die is what is needed to bring that vision to fruition. We ignore that and try to play nice at our own risk. Well, there is the consolation that some people get it. I bet the world leaves it up to Israel to deal with these bastards. Hope we like a nuked Iran because that is what will happen.

And the idiots keep goinng at it..

This idiotic crap is why I am so happy the US told those Europeans to shove their International Court idea where the sun don’t shine. Please explain to me why these socialists have time to file lawsuits against people like Rumsfeld but never find the time to do any for real dictators that have brutallized their people and encourage torture like Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Ahmedinajad, Arafat (when he was alive these same people gave him a Nobel peace prize), and countless other tyranical bastards that have killed hundreds if not thousands of people? Is it because it is always about hating America and bringing down capitalism? Because they sure never seem to have a problem with brutal butchers. Their ire is always reserved for Americans. Want to bet the MSM will not point out what affiliations these “international group of lawyers” really belong to? I bet it will be the standard group of Jew-hating, anti-capitalist, anti-American, hard-line communist-loving SOBs that still are angry the USSR lost the Cold War. And I also bet the left in this country will eat this crap up with glee. After all, those globalist-socialists worship the courts.

Monday, November 13, 2006

On Rumsfeld

With Donald Rumsfeld sacrificed to appease the anti-Iraqi crowd after the electoral thumping republicans got one has to ask what went wrong. I still believe Rumsfeld is responsible for one of the most critical and necessary changes to prepare our military for the wars of the future - and only a fool believes wars are a thing of the past with so many third world countries now stepping up and trying their hands at imperialism - and the changes he has started making should be completed. Others agree with that assessment even if they also blame him for the failure in Iraq. Yeah, that is one long article but it is very good and worth reading. Rumsfeld moved the military from a Cold War force prepared to slug out a massive and slow war with the enormous forces of the USSR that would ground booth sides into the dust to a light and fast moving force able to deliver rapid, lethal, and massive force by taking advantage of technology. We will thank him for this change sooner than later I believe. China is-a-coming, but unfortunately we do need to win the current conflict first. I have to admit that there are many that fear the change in focus - Gates was brought in to deal with Iraq and will not be as interested in continue these reforms which might be problematic - will undo the critical changes Rumsfeld championed, but I seriously hope that isn’t the case. Yeah, a new policy is needed to make sure we change course in Iraq, but I am worried that since we will cut & run in the end anyway, we are just going to drag it out and let people die for no reason. Especially with some calling for more troops to be sent as this and this article show, before we cut & run anyway. I am sad to say the only people that really won big right now are already planning the fireworks.

Life is better these days…

With the recent democratic victory it looks like peace is finally breaking out everywhere, since the evil American Empire has been slayed and it’s delusions of expanding that empire are now at an end according to the European & our own home grown socialists which believe we are the real reason the world is a mess. But then you hear news like Chinese subs stalking our carrier battle groups even as we are playing nice with China, that nut job in Iran declaring Israel’s days are numbered while according to the Jew haters Israel is again showing it is an evil aggressive monster because it says it will not tolerate a nuclear armed Iran (which constantly talks about destroying Israel so go figure), while we now are going to make sure that the terrorists win in Iraq (so they can then go after us in Afghanistan and the US). Then again, Iran is now pissed at Google so Israel might finally get a break.

Anyway. China playing dangerous war games & being overtly aggressive, is nothing new. China’s military buildup is geared to one and one objective: to block US carrier battle groups from preventing a full scale Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Showing the US that its multi-billion dollar carriers are at serious risk if they stay around gives the Chinese just enough breathing room - as the US redeploys further away from Chinese assets to give itself more security - to maybe pull a fast & unopposed invasion as the American battle group tries to move into position. update: This incident involved a Song class diesel-electric boat in international waters off the coast of Okinawa, a clear message to the US that their carriers would not be safe anywhere in the Pacific if China decided to go after Taiwan. Hopefully the US Navy will revisit its plan and assume nowhere in the Pacific should be considered off-limits and that aggressive anti-sub operations need to be conducted at all times.. In the mean time we continue to play nice with the Chinese while what we need to be doing is make sure the Chinese know any fight they start will result in us wiping out their military, by nuclear weapons if necessary.

The same applies to Iran talking about wiping out Israel. I find it absolutely demoralizing that a dangerous regime, in the country that is the top sponsor of terrorism, can say it wants to wipe the sole working democracy in the ME off the face of the earth, and only gets tsk-tsks from the Western world, while if Israel claims it will not risk a nuclear armed Iran and will intervene to stop that, we get round & about condemnation from all the Eurotrash. Israel, a nuclear armed state, has never pointed out it felt the map of the world would need to be redrawn to make Arab states disappear like Iran, which is trying to build nukes, has. Hey, but we want peace at all costs. Until the cost is our hides I guess. Iran is also making sure we know they are playing for keeps. I keep wondering why we are not when I hear crap like this. Did we not learn anything from North Korea?

And we should now just pull out of Iraq ASAP. We have already told the enemy if they hang on long enough they get to take over when we cut & run. Drawing that out and letting more of our troops die in a cause we now are hell bent to make sure we lose, is despicable at best. I hear tons of talk about hawkish new democrats doing what is right. Empress Pelosi - she truly reminds me of the Emperor Sith Lord from Star Wars, because she pretends to be something she is not and even looks like the ugly dude - will squash that good, and have no doubt about it. just take a look at who she is backing for what. In the mean time Bush is setting himself up to be a pushover. Maybe we should do what the British did when these people gave them back trouble in the days of empire and just clean house. Even the military people believe that for an end to the violence to happen we need to let it play out.

UPDATE: Looks like the left has figured out how to better understand the Middle East and Islam. Oh, the joyous times are a coming! Yeah, they are the ones poised to determine & set our policy towards people that claim they hate us because we are deviant scum.....

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Donkeys, elephants, and the election

I have heard a lot of the moonbats claiming that the recent democrat sweep was a vindication of their progressive (read socialist) ideals and that America has finally woken up to the wonders of socialism. Yeah, I am talking about the same people that suddenly discovered the wonders of Diebold because their side won. Anyway, as better people than I have pointed out - Bob Tyrell, Toney Blankley, Seth Swirsky, and Dick Armey - the democrats that won did so by embracing conservative principles and the republicans lost because they abandoned the revolution & ideals that brought them to power in 1994. Of course some like Mort Kondrake think it was because moderates got tired of polarization, something I am not sure I agree much with considering the liberal democrat leadership have taken polarization to a new level, and sent a message. Of course, and as I pointed out, the nut jobs which saw every radical candidate including “Red Ned Lamont” go down in flames are all crowing and claiming it was their demand the party shift further to the left that won them the election. But only a complete moron, and this group of hardcore lefties is replete with them, would buy into that.

Then there are those that have suddenly come to the conclusion & realization that being in the majority carries with it consequences. Donkeys can no longer just be content to undermine everything going on. In fact they are facing some serious headaches, many of their own making. Case in point the fact that power will now bring problems like, the fact that she now has to put a radical felon in charge of Intelligence, or even more problematic for them Social Security which was largely ignored this election cycle, for example. Then again, after squandering their mandate republicans also have some issues to deal with if they want to avoid another whooping in 2008. We do not want this to happen. 

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

2006 Elections bad for conservatives

The 2006 Election Results

Well the American people have spoken and the verdict is in. Despite the booming economy: jobless rates are at a historical low, interest rates remain low too, inflation is under control, the stock market is setting new records, and wealth has grown at a staggering rate for all demographics. Despite the fact there has not been another terror attack against American assets or American civilians around the world since 9-11: terror attacks occurred with a frequency of at least 1 a year from the early 1990s on out and culminated with 3000 dead on 9-11. Despite more government largess: the now defunct republican Congress spend like democrats-light and even passed another massive entitlement – Medicare Part D – taking us a step closer to big socialism. And despite the fact America freed 2 countries & 50 million people from brutal and primitive dictatorships and was trying to reshape the Middle East in order to avoid a clash of civilizations. Despite all of that, Americans bought into the argument that Iraq was a failure – our 30 minute attention span microwave society seems to have been convinced that democracies, even when opposed by brutal and barbaric people willing to murder to stop it from happening, need to be build in 2 years and on the cheap – and that we supposedly needed a new direction. A new direction that was nothing new, and harkens back to the school of “cut & run” that over 2 ½ decades ago left South East Asia in the grips of communism and killed millions, and will likely again rear its ugly head.

Republicans – notice I am not saying conservatives - have nobody to blame but themselves for this. Unlike the democrats which never admit they are in the wrong, we conservatives should not fall into the trap of blaming external forces for our loss, especially in this case. Republicans abused and misused the power they were given and that came back to bite them. They spend way too much on pork & entitlements and lost the ability to claim that distinction. They were too passive and late at countering a well orchestrated propaganda campaign by the democrats and the media – mark my words that every election battle from now on will be between republicans and the democrats and the media - that completely shifted the focus from what was important to the illusion of failure. They didn’t articulate their vision and live by conservative values of fiscal responsibility and principled values. Too often, they engaged in the corrupt behaviors that plague the party in power when it loses sight of what it was elected to do. And most importantly, they ignored key issues that resonated with the base – like illegal immigration and homeland security. All because they felt they could skate on the fact democrats were seriously lacking on national security, and would not be perceived as a viable option. And it cost us the House for sure, and likely the Senate as well. If we are lucky it will not result in an impeachment – there is no need for a real crime because the radical left which will now control Congress isn’t bothered with, or worried about, little details like that – and a loss of the presidency as well.

But I am glad this happened now rather than in 2008. Oh, I believe we – not just conservatives, but all Americans - will pay a hefty price for this, but it would be much, much, worse if the republicans had been able to squeak one by and keep the status quo and then this shift happened in 2008 where they would likely also have lost the presidency. Democrats which are superb at scorched earth politics and pointing fingers, now will have to put up. I know they can not because they do not have any new ideas and lack the ability to really deal with the world we are now living in, basically because their ideological blinders prevents them from understanding that America will not be liked ever by those staring up at us and feeling envious. I have no doubt they will do much worse than the republicans have, and I also do not doubt the media will try hard to fool the American people otherwise, and in the end again remind us all why they should not be in power.

Winners & Losers

Contrary to what the MSM and the democrats will say, the biggest winner(s) in this election are the terrorists that have declared war on America and every enemy out there that had there sights set on something we stood in the way off. Osama’s words that we are but a paper tiger and that if we are hit will lose the stomach to fight have been validated by these results. Consequently I expect a rise in resistance in both Iraq and Afghanistan from emboldened terrorists while at the same time expecting a backing down by the Iraqi and Afghani governments, which suddenly will be left with the understanding they may soon be out there alone fighting these terrorists and decide it is probably better to cut their losses to seek accommodations, leading to a collapse in both nations. And to use one of the left’s favorite lines - a distorted and weak argument when they use it because they ignore the fact the terrorists would have joined up to fight in Afghanistan if we were not in Iraq – about how Iraq helped with terrorist recruitment: this win will make recruitment go through the roof. Expect terror attacks to pick up in Asia and Europe at first. But eventually they will get to us. Again borrowing from the left’s vernacular I need to point out that unlike in Vietnam, this enemy is in this fight against us and will follow us home.

The second biggest winners will be Iran and North Korea. While I really did not feel a diplomatic solution was possible, I believed because the threat of a military one was real, there was a chance for a diplomatic solution. With democrats now in charge you can kiss a military solution goodbye. That also means you can kiss a diplomatic solution goodbye. Iran will either get a bomb or Israel will pre-empt using nukes to stop that. Either way, things just got real ugly and that situation has gotten darker and more likely to end up in a world war. And that is me being optimistic about it. I also expect Iran to become much more aggressive both in Iraq and Afghanistan as it moves in to fill the vacuum we are about to leave behind.

And it will not end there. Israel will now be dealing with an escalation of attacks as well. And the Europeans that are all so giddy right now Bush got it are going to lose big too. All those unassimilated Muslim immigrants are going to read the same message in this election as Osama will. They will basically have their belief that the West is decadent, weak and ripe for the picking validated and will act accordingly. Instead of burning hundreds of cars every night in France they will start killing people. This will also start happening in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and even across Great Britain. Their joy will be very short lived I suspect. In short, while the left now thinks they can somehow compromise with those that want to kill them and reduce the violence, the violence attached to the global Jihad will increase. Even if they might think they are winners reality will in the end show them that they are for sure one of the big losers.

Then there is North Korea. All bets are off. I expect another nuke test soon preceded and followed by a demand for bilateral talks between the NKs and the US. Kim now feels he will have support from the newly empowered American left, which has already once paid him blackmail money to keep up the illusion that there was a diplomatic solution, while he went ahead and did whatever he wanted – building nukes – anyway. And he will get it again. The only dictators the left doesn’t like and are willing to give a pass on are the ones that help the US. This will drive a wedge between Japan, Taiwan, and the US. China will win big for a while. That is, until Japan figures it can no longer count on the US for security and goes nuclear. Then both the Chinese and the US will lose.

Oh yeah, another big winner is socialism. We will now get a rollback of the Bush tax cuts for sure. But I also expect the hike to go beyond that. Democrats want to spend more on the entitlements that buy them votes, redistribute wealth in the name of social justice, and they can not now that hey have demonized deficit spending do too much of that. Couple that with the shift from defense & homeland security spending – it might not look like a shift at first but the money will go towards things that improve socialism’s hold on us instead of homeland security or military capability – as well as a shift in pork towards more socialism friendly causes, and you are looking at a disaster. I predict if we are lucky enough to avoid a recession we still will end up with a devastating halt in economic growth. The stock market will come down big time as investors hide their money from the tax happy donkeys. And wait until they start talking about universal healthcare. If you thought Hillary care was devastating, you have not seen anything yet. The jobless rates will rise considerably as businesses reign in their growth and many small businesses simply go under from the minimum wage hikes the democrats will force on us all, and are forced to shed people. And the middle class will take a beating they will not soon forget as this happens. I won’t even go into what all the radical social issues and changes that will hamper the war on terror that the democrats will push will do to us. We will be the big losers.

Finally the Iraqi people for sure, and the Afghanis as well if you ask me, will also end up losing. When we leave Iran will move in and try to take over. If you think the violence now is bad, you are in for a rude surprise. Of course I do not expect the media to carry much of this once it happens unless they can somehow benefit the democrats or blame Bush for it. That is, if Bush is still around. But the violence will not just stay there. It is going to come after us. It is a question of time before we get another attack against US assets. After all, the US will likely now go back to doing what it did under Clinton, not much, when it responds to attacks.

Democrats & republicans both will be winners & losers. The donkeys got Congress while the republicans lost it. But the donkeys now can no longer just resort to their scorched earth tactics, as the impatient American people will demand they do something to correct the problems their very policy changes will create. And the donkeys have no clue what to do other than the same old socialist things they always fall back on: increase taxes, increase entitlement spending, grow government, and cut & run. But they can no longer get away for too long with blaming Bush for Iraq (again if he is around). And they certainly will have nobody to blame when the economy goes south or the terrorists come-a-calling. Now they will have to put up or shut up on Iran and North Korea. The media might spin for them for a while, but they have a long 2 years ahead of them. As the world degenerates around them, they can no longer just blame bush and scream quagmire!

The republicans on the other hand lost big, but deserved it. Hopefully they got the message, and now they will to rethink the why of their loss, and go back to their conservative roots. I was also hoping that they would turn that tactic the donkeys used, scorched earth, right back on them. But then I saw McCain already kissing the left’s ass and I realized these panty waste losers will actually play nice with the donkeys to our detriments. And they will do the same with the MSM despite the obvious fact they will never get positive coverage from the MSM unless they take positions harmful to conservative ideals. I wonder how long it will take for republicans to learn the lesson that nice guys always finish last. Anyway. There is also a huge potential for a win as they now can set themselves up for 2008. I just worried how much it will cost the people of this country before we head there. Time will tell. But I have a feeling things will have to get worse before they get better.

More to come…

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

It is on..

Today is the day. Please make sure you go vote. The MSM is still trying to spin this election and make it about a failed Iraq war for which the donkeys have really offered only one solution: defeat. Yeah I know they are not saying that and the MSM has been hard at work trying to pretend it is not what they stand for, but do not buy it. I may not be happy with republicans & the current lackluster leadership - we should be hammering the left harder not trying to play nice with them - but I am not stupid enough to think democrats are an alternative when they are suicidal. So go vote. I am sure democrats are being told to vote, and vote often. The dead will be voting for them as usual too. The terrorists, which have all endorsed the democrats, are rooting for them. If you do not vote do not complain about Speaker Pelosi when that happens.

Monday, November 06, 2006

Vioter beware!

Shameless left manipulates news yet again.

By now everyone has covered the despicable Vanity Fair article hit piece that tried to create the illusion even the most ardent supporters of the Iraqi war are turning on the president. Only problem is that this is not the case at all. Rickard Perle, which was horribly misquoted, strikes back. So does David Frum. The Captain has more about this. So does Allahpundit over at Hot Air. To make a long story short, Vanity Fair lied to people about what they were doing, then took quotes out of context to write a completely false story. Of course the story ran right before an election in which the liberal MSM has show an absolutely unashamed bias favoring the democrats and was intended to influence the vote. But you will not hear that from the liberal MSM even when they are finally admitting they have been absolutely biased towards the left. Can you imagine how big the riight would be winning the coming election if the MSM was just reporting the facts and not spinning it madly?