[Rhodes22-list] Politics - chiaroscuro

[brad haslett]

Dear G,

Please give me a link to your Fouad Ajami reference if
you have it.  I have read his article in the Jan/Feb
2003 Foreign Affairs magazine and a few others but
nothing recent.  

We agree on this, the ultimate fate of Iraq belongs to
the Iraq's.  Regardless of how one feels about the
justifications for the current occupation of Iraq, we
are there and to pull out now or announce a date
specific pull out would only encourage the insurgents
to wait us out, just as in Vietnam.  There is no
shortage of current literature critical of the
occupation including a lengthy article by James
Fallows in this months Atlantic Monthly.  In fact, if
you read the transcript of Kerry's Iraq positions
during the debate, you will notice Kerry neatly
mirrows Fallows, which more than one blogger in
cyberspace has noticed as well.

So, our choice is between one leader who doggedly
remains on course,  versus another who follows the
latest read of yesterdays "game tape"  I personally
would feel more confident of a critic if he had made
an impassioned plea against the war in advance.  

Kerry won the debate on style, expected when you
consider his 20 years of practice in the debate
society we call the Senate.  For those opposed to our
current engagement it is indeed unfortunate that this
style and passion was missing in the Fall of 2002.

We ARE all wearing the blue dress now, though I prefer
that it be a red one on November 2.

Brad Haslett
"CoraShen"
--- Grayson/Ena Lynn <agl2001 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Phyllis wrote:
> 
> > I respect a person who can think through, analyze
> a situation, and when
> > presented with corrective information, i.e. the
> intelligence was wrong...
> then
> > formulates a new position and advocate it.
> 
> > That is leadership to me, not someone who is so
> dogmatic, one-sighted and
> > unwilling to do anything differently than follow
> the misguided pals around
> > him...
> 
> Spot on!
> 
> Add to that Fouad Ajami's observation that Bush
> cannot win the war, Kerry
> cannot win the war, UBL cannot win the war, America
> cannot win the war.
> Only Iraqis can win the war.
> 
> Case closed.
> 
> The true flip-flop, or bi-stable latch circuit, was
> invented by Eccles and
> Jordan in 1919 and became the fundamental building
> block of the computer
> world.  Without the flip-flop and it's cousins AND,
> OR and NOT, "digital"
> would not exist, cell phones would not work, and
> rock music synthesizers
> would be silent (a silver lining to every cloud).
> 
>
http://pt.withy.org/ptalk/archives/thought_for_the_day/
> 
> Like the bumper sticker said, we're all wearing the
> blue dress now.
> 
> <G>
> 
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