Afghan exit strategy is another futile liberal exercise
It’s time to remove the inscription over the door to the Post-Dispatch editorial board room. “Bury them in bunkum” has run it’s course.
“Afghan strategy: Exit” (11/13) is simply another futile liberal exercise in beating a dead horse with a Nerf whip. Beginning, “For decades historians have argued whether he had lived, President John F. Kennedy would have sent the nation full tilt into Vietnam the way President Lyndon B. Johnson did”
I’d like to thank the historians and you for your support. Although I’m not a historian, for years I’ve been arguing that if Lincoln had a 50 caliber machine gun in his box at the Ford Theater, John Wilkes Booth would have never made it through the door.
From this razzle, you descended into your typical dazzle, assessing the reason for our entry into the Iraq war was “neo-con jingoism.” It’s impossible for the paper liberal leopard to change it’s spots but sensible sneering might be avoided if someone there could come up with a dictionary or encyclopedia to discover that a “neo-con” is a former liberal turned conservative or at least talks that way.
That charge will pass over the heads of your liberal readers but conservatives resent being identified as liberals, even previously.
Don Hart
Maryland Heights
Oh Don ….. There you go again ——–
I have always thought the Afghan war was a mistake. I think it was a knee jerk reaction to 9-11 by Bush. The quagmire we are now in was predictable. We should have bombed the terrorist camps and chased them around the globe once they left Afghanistan. Now, especially, as we have a leader who despises his own country and has particular contempt for the military, we should declare victory and leave.
More rubbish from “Da Sage”. Irrelevant.
You’re right! Conservatives want to be identified as racists, not liberals!
HKCHAS, Knuckles and Bernie:
Your thoughtful and incisive comments required reconsideration of my opinions, it is proper for editors and historians to fantasize over imagined virtues of an inconsequential president and the continued psychotic mis-use of Neo-con was insightful and intuitive.
You guys been taking smarts lessons from llbean?
I’m conservative, opposed to Obamacare, and the entirety of his insane fiscal policies, but don’t lump all conservatives into the “pro-war” camp. There is no way to force Western democracy on people who don’t want it. It is misguided ideological, rather than practical thinking. The Russians learned this the hard way, and we just refuse to acknowledge history.
Sorry Don-
OF COURSE it is inappropriate to be critical of YOU….I am staggered by the depth of your knowledge and insight. YOU could never be wrong.
HKCHAS:
“OF COURSE it is inappropriate to be critical of YOU….I am staggered by the depth of your knowledge and insight. YOU could never be wrong.”
Your inability to broach the subject of a thread is legend but your personal assaults have mildly mitigated. Your keepers must be thrilled with your progress and I’m pleasantly surprised.
sniffle…sniffle…boo hoo…sob…sob…snivel…snivel…weep…weep
typical hart baloney.
spot on, knuckles…
he’s discharging more rubbish.
That’s got to be the funniest headline.
Seven years of Bush wartime corruption and disasters.. and Sage [somehow] finds in his demented conservative corporate war-mongering loving mind….
a way to blame Liberals.