Newt seems to have come around but will he have an impact?:
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich says America is in World War III and President Bush should say so. In an interview in Bellevue this morning Gingrich said Bush should call a joint session of Congress the first week of September and talk about global military conflicts in much starker terms than have been heard from the president.
“We need to have the militancy that says ‘We’re not going to lose a city,’ ” Gingrich said. He talks about the need to recognize World War III as important for military strategy and political strategy.
Gingrich said he is “very worried” about Republican’s facing fall elections and says the party must have the “nerve” to nationalize the elections and make the 2006 campaigns about a liberal Democratic agenda rather than about President Bush’s record.
A lot of us have been saying this for a while and a recent Michael Goodwin column seemed to get some attention. This administration has been all over the map in it’s characterization of this war. We’ve been through periods where we were threatening to hunt down terrorists and their supporters around the globe (telling terrorist supporting states that they we either with us or against us) and confusing periods of silence followed by a near reversal of our initial determination. Instead of preparing the American public for a long difficult war the message has evolved into “Yeah we’re at war but you’re not at risk. Well sometimes you are but don’t worry about it. Keep on shoppin’.”
The war in Israel, which is our war too, is a great opportunity for the President to continue to make his case to the American people. But the official response seems to be one of casual interest and concern instead of the concrete support an ally fighting our war deserves. If Americans ultimately reject this war, and in the near term the Republican party, it will be a result of this administration’s communication failures not our collective will. We’re in a war for our survival and it’s time to acknowledge it.
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July 22nd, 2006 at 8:32 am
written with laser clarity. how can anyone not see?
August 1st, 2006 at 2:54 am
Coming Soon-WWW III-from the People Who Brought You Iraq
They never cease to amaze. The same people who have us in a mess in Iraq want to solve the problem they created by having more of our troops fighting a wider war throughout the Middle East and Iran.
Who is telling us this is WWW III, and by implication, trying to justify a wider conflict to include Syria and Iran? The same geniuses who helped get us into Iraq. Newt Gingrich, William Kristol, Sean (high school) Hannity, Oliver North, William (the virtuous gambler) Bennett, Bill O’Reilly, Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes. Not one day of military service out of the whole group.
I guess they figure that if they can’t win a smaller war they can win a larger one, though I fail to see how that follows. Do not expect even the U.K. to be around for the next misadventure the neocons want to undertake. Once Tony Blair is gone his successor has the perfect opportunity to get out of a bad situation and I think he’ll take it.
Instead of figuring out a diplomatic way to get us out of the Middle East, these yo-yo’s keep trying to find a military victory somewhere, anywhere, as an excuse for their strategic ineptitude.
The people are saying in poll after poll, “Get out”, and the neocons are promising to drag them further into the Middle East quagmire.
This latest attempt won’t work to scare the American people into voting Republican in November. Just the opposite, it will scare them into getting rid of their Republican representatives so that don’t have to send even more troops to the Middle East and stay even longer.