Somebody Explain This To Me Please
Published by BG on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 10:59 AM.Trouble for Little John, Trouble for Us All -- Hugh Hewitt
(Posted by Dean Barnett) The Republican portion of the Senate desperately needs someone to put the war into its proper strategic and intellectual context. Pardon me for being a cynic, but I don’t think Trent Lott is going to be the guy. And while John McCain has been heroically stalwart on the war, he still (publicly at least) clings to the outdated notion that we’re battling a numerically tiny band of Islamist nutjobs. This toxic piece of political correctness, born literally in the hours after 9/11, has hamstrung the war effort ever since.
Right now the painful fact is 2008 will be a very tough year for Republicans unless something seismic happens between now and November ‘08. Rather than trying to nibble away at the war effort, something that will be ruinous to the country and do nothing for their political prospects, Republican Senators would be much better served trying to make seismic things (like victory in Iraq and a decisive engagement with Iran) happen.
a) How is it "political correctness" to assert that al-Qaeda is "a numerically tiny band of Islamist nutjobs?" The population of Rhode Island is a "numerically tiny band" of America's total population, and when measured relative to whatever pertinent group or sub-group (Muslims, Middle Easterners, Middle Eastern Muslims, Sunnis, Middle Eastern Sunnis) you'd like, the enemy that attacked us on 9/11 is a "numerically tiny band of Islamist nutjobs." If we're not "fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here," and if we're not "refereeing a civil war," what exactly does Dean Barnett suppose we're doing?
b) Tell me Dean Barnett didn't just say that Republicans should be focused on war with Iran to enhance the political prospects of the Republican Party in 2008. Am I missing something here? "(N)ibbl(ing) away at the war effort... (will) do nothing for (Republican) political prospects, (so) Republican Senators would be much better served trying to make... a decisive engagement with Iran (happen)."
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