2008 & Beyond: A Warning
Austin Bay, (found via Instapundit) has a warning to the next few Presidential Administration, be they Democrat or Republican:
"The re-election of George W. Bush bodes well for peace in 2020. A John Kerry victory would have cost us an additional two years of blood, toil, sweat, and tears -—the two years it would take the Kerry Administration to discover that the Bush Administration’s strategy in the War on Terror is the right one.
However, the linked threat posed by theo-fascist terrorism, petty despots, and the proliferation of weapons of capable of killing innocents by the millions remains the Hell Forumla for the 21st century.
Like it or not, the bitter task of breaking our planet’s Hell Formula falls on the American people, led by American presidents a decade after Bush leaves office.
Is it a complex task? Of course— we’re fighting history’s most intricate war. Is it a hateful and odious task? I’ve thought so from the get go. I didn’t like the burden of the Cold War falling on America either, though Poles and Hungarians I served with in Iraq last summer thank Americans in the most reverential terms for standing up to the terror of the Soviet empire.
Is the task shirkable, deflectable, rejectable, add-any-word-you-want-that-suggests-letting-it-slide?
The answer: an unequivocal NO."
Wise words, methinks.
"The re-election of George W. Bush bodes well for peace in 2020. A John Kerry victory would have cost us an additional two years of blood, toil, sweat, and tears -—the two years it would take the Kerry Administration to discover that the Bush Administration’s strategy in the War on Terror is the right one.
However, the linked threat posed by theo-fascist terrorism, petty despots, and the proliferation of weapons of capable of killing innocents by the millions remains the Hell Forumla for the 21st century.
Like it or not, the bitter task of breaking our planet’s Hell Formula falls on the American people, led by American presidents a decade after Bush leaves office.
Is it a complex task? Of course— we’re fighting history’s most intricate war. Is it a hateful and odious task? I’ve thought so from the get go. I didn’t like the burden of the Cold War falling on America either, though Poles and Hungarians I served with in Iraq last summer thank Americans in the most reverential terms for standing up to the terror of the Soviet empire.
Is the task shirkable, deflectable, rejectable, add-any-word-you-want-that-suggests-letting-it-slide?
The answer: an unequivocal NO."
Wise words, methinks.
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