No less a conservative icon than William F. Buckley thinks America isn’t winning the war in Iraq. “It is simply untrue that we are making decisive progress in Iraq,” he said in a column. And that, he believes, is a grave political problem for George W. Bush and the future of the Republican Party.
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Finally coming around Buckley? That’s why you get paid the big bucks.
It’s gratifying to know that there are still some conservatives we can all look up to.God bless you, Mr. Buckley.
Wow! IS Bill Kristol next? Naaw. But it is nice to see the Republicans in demise. I have been waiting a long time to see their demise. Total destruction of the evil empire would be good but I would be happy if Bush can accomplish what Hoover did for the GOP and put it out of business for about the next 30 years or so.
Buckley is a surrender cheese-monkey terrorist lover!
Stay the course!
9/11!
Mission Accomplished!
Al-Quada!
I don’t think there is anything wrong in admitting a mistake, or trying to distance oneself from what has turned out to be the worst President ever. The problem is that most right wingers are too blinded by their ideological rhetorics to even see any other view points. This admission by Will Buckley is refreshing.
I’m not in the least bit surprised. The republicans have been deserting bushco in droves. One more only adds to this administrations failure in this despicable war.
The question is political; “How can the Republican party, headed by a president determined on a war he can’t see an end to, attract the support of a majority of the voters?”
In my view, Buckley’s article was less an opinion on the war in Iraq than it was a political barometer on the effect the war is having on domestic politics.
Within all humanity, it will always be easier to quit fighting than to continue, and because democrats don’t want to fight, they have the political advantage.
“Within all humanity, it will always be easier to quit fighting than to continue, and because democrats don’t want to fight, they have the political advantage.”
That is an very astute observation, thepoint.
Now whether this lack of resolve and seemingly inexorable movement to quit will prove to be correct in the long term is another matter.
because democrats don’t want to fight, they have the political advantage.Posted by: thepoint | May 02, 2007 at 08:40 AM
That’s crap. The majority of Americans want our kids out of that civil war and brought home. Using 150,000 of our soldiers and Marines as human shields in a sectarian civil war will accomplish nothing. At least, nothing good.
Tom, I think the wingers here are pissed off because their merry little war of choice turned into such a disaster. They can only fall back onto old canards like “yer a buncha pussies who dont want to fight” or “yer a buncha cheese eating surrender monkeys if you dont want to squander billions of dollars to halliburton” etc.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Maybe democrats just dont like fighting wars of choice that only waste money and lives? Maybe they dont like fighting wars of choice for oil and corporate profits?
Just keep clinging to your boy bush. I’m sure the little “life raft” he provides you will be plenty.
Since there are so many rats already leaving his sinking ship and all. You know.
Farmgrrl,
It’s pretty sad when that Republicans have reduced the argument to the dichotomy of “war or surrender.” There used to be other options; too bad Bush & Co have squandered them all.
Remember how almost the whole world was with us on 9/12/01?
thepoint,
Actually, at the moment, it appears to be easier for the Administration to keep fighting than to quit. Because if they do throw in the towel, George W. Bush remains in the Presidency as an utterly destroyed figure.
As for Buckley, I once saw him changing planes at an airport somewhere. He looked exactly as he should have looked: tall, florid, smiling face, slightly rumpled, a bit inebriated (scotch, no doubt), with a handsomely dressed older lady and an enormous cart of luggage being managed by an African-American porter.
Funny story, CF.
And of course, being totally wrong about the war from the out set will in no way tarnish Mr. Buckley’s readership or marketability.
Conservative pundit is the only job that I know of in which a person can be wrong over and over again–demonstratively, provably wrong–and continue to earn big bucks in a prestigeous position.
(Well, there’s also conservative economist and conservative politican. But I digress.)
pointless – tell us again, just what WAS the ‘point’ in the invasion in the first place? Even rabid neo-con Cal Thomas tacitly admits it was stupid: “We can’t go back and fix the mistakes of the past.” He then proceeds to conclude that we must CONTINUE those mistakes to vindicate them. That seems to be your position; we must “stay the failed course” to vindicate the course.
Ben,
Exactly. To mix metaphors, because emperor wears no clothes, we have to keep digging a hole.
“Within all humanity, it will always be easier to quit fighting than to continue, and because democrats don’t want to fight, they have the political advantage.”Posted by: thepoint | May 02, 2007 at 08:40 AM
That is very far from the truth. Nobody questioned us attacking Afghanistan after 9/11. We should have focused solely on that country and God knows that Bin Laden could have been captured or killed by now.We hear so often about all these Al-Qaeda men killed in Iraq. Why do we not hear about any Al-Qaeda men killed in Afghanistan?Could it be because that:-1) We are focusing on the wrong country2) The ones in Afghanistan who were responsible for 9/11 have escaped to other places such as Pakistan and several countries in Africa3) Both the above
“…because democrats don’t want to fight, they have the political advantage.”Posted by: thepoint | May 02, 2007 at 08:40 AM
LOL
Yeah right, that’s why all the acolytes of Augustus Stupidus around here complain so much about rude behavior and calling Augustus Stupidus silly names like Commander Codpiece.
It’s not that the Dems don’t “want” to fight, because as you may have noticed they’re FULL of fight.
You should try again, I think in the parsing you may come to a more explanatory truth about what’s behind the GOP’s political problems and why the Dems stand to benefit.