Conservative VA Blogger: Let's Cut and Run

By: Chris Guy
Published On: 2/6/2007 11:46:02 PM

It turns out a man sentenced to death for the 1983 bombings of U.S. and French Embassies, now sits on the democratically elected Iraqi Parliament. From CNN:

Jamal Jafaar Mohammed's seat in parliament gives him immunity from prosecution. Washington says he supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.

U.S. military intelligence in Iraq has approached al-Maliki's government with the allegations against Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, whom it says assists Iranian special forces in Iraq as "a conduit for weapons and political influence."

After digesting this news for himself; Bearing Drift contributor Brian, aka The Squeaky Wheel, had this to say about the current situation in Iraq:

It is days like this where I feel like the Dem's plan of cut and run might not be a bad idea. When the cards become so stacked against you, it starts to really get on one's nerves.

I am not sure how news like this makes me feel about the war, but it sure makes me shake my head and say "What next?"

I love it. He admits that Democrats might have been right all along, yet he still has to take his shots with the tired "cut and run" narrative.


See, this is what Brian thought would happen when Iraq held elections:

So how does it feel to be a "Defeatocrat" Brian? How does it feel to embolden our enemy? How does it feel to not support the troops? And don't you know, the liberal media only focuses on the negatives? Sure Iraq is mired in a Civil War, but what about the new schools being built?

What's that? You don't like having your patriotism called into question? You don't like being accused of treason? It's called speaking you mind and having an opinion. Welcome to America Brian, glad you could join us.

Comments



Great vid and nice catch (PM - 2/7/2007 12:54:32 AM)
I guess Ike "cut and ran" from Korea.  And Nixon from Vietnam.  And Bush 41 from Iraq ('cause he didn't invade Baghdad.)


Brilliant piece of satire (Chris Guy - 2/7/2007 1:13:16 AM)
from Family Guy. And it's a point that doesn't get made enough. The idea that democracy by itself will solve all the world's problems is so juvenile.


Having mind is not requisite to having opinion it seems (fouro - 2/7/2007 12:37:14 PM)
Squeaky turfs up this gem in comments: It is naive and childish to say "Screw them, leave and let them deal with their own country" but still, might be worth disussing.

"X" is pointless and deficient, so lets do "x."

I dunno Chris, I think Brian's fully vetted as an "American" with all the the appropriate short-circuitry and hurry to be doing and feeling something, anything. At least, he's typical of the ones who spend so much energy bleating their American-ness (not to mention their "results-oriented business-savvy.") There is no mind behind his and similar opinions and thats why they're so reactive - feeling overrules all, and offensive posture is the habit not the strategy. Maybe the only saving grace is that rarely is there such a clear demo of the fruitlessness of conservative absolutism like the one we endure today. 

Something a business friend shared with me, and worth a google: Lovaglia's Law: "The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it."