Maritime metaphors strained to breaking point!
Right, correct, accurate, true, unerring, precise, and bang on:
The Washington Post characterized President Bush’s words for the press pool as “impassioned,” causing Townhall’s Mary Katherine Ham (guest host of Vent yesterday and today) to quip, “What, not cuckoo or angered-by-his-utter-defeat-and-imminent-demise?”
You can watch the video of Bush’s remarks here.
As you’ll see, Bush remains (as is his signature stance) determined and resolute, but for some of the GWOT’s most stalwart early supporters, steady conviction is no longer enough. What they want to see is action—and for many, the US / Israeli capitulation to Hezbollah via the UN cease fire agreement, coupled with Iran’s blustery and confident intransigence, is sending all the wrong signals.
Well, unless of course you’re one of those who is actively cheering on a US/Bushco failure so that we can return to those pre-911 salad days, when history ended and Presidents played the sax and mixed in a hummer with their US/Chinese diplomacy.
‘Nuff said, really. But wait; as with the Ronco Pocket Fisherman, quoth the MC: there’s more!
It could simply be misplaced faith and optimism on my part, but I feel like there almost must be things going on in the background that we’re not seeing. Otherwise, I’d be despairing, too.
Because if this is it — if all we can manage politically at this point, even with someone as stubborn (as) Bush in office, is to declare victory by staying the course — then our adversarial press and the cynical opportunists on the left (with an assist from the nativists on the paleocon right) will have shown the world that America is indeed the weak horse, crippled by its own inner tensions and power struggles, and by the soft transnational leftism that, by controlling the narrative and sowing seeds of manipulated dissent, pushes us ever closer to its goal of turning the US into a kind of European satellite nation and prevents us from committing to the kind of difficult, long-term projects that may just affect the kind of change necessary to stave of an otherwise inevitable worldwide conflagration brought about by an emboldened and resolute Islamism.
And I’m just not ready to live with that.
Nor should any patriotic American be. Looks like to me the smart money would be reefing in the sails and battening down the hatches. Because no one needs a spyglass at this point to see the effect on the national will of the Treasonous Left’s happily defeatist caterwauling. And until we cast off that insidious anchor, the forecast calls for rough sailing ahead.
- Entries
1 - Cut efforts to fight terrorism and blame any later attacks for problems stirred up by Bush
2 - Crack down hard with domestic spying themselves - including on political opponents - and claim they have to do it to protect people, that Bush didn't do enough and that the people can trust *them.*
It doesn't have to be effective in anything except building and/or maintaining power for them.
Either road would not be a good one.