Carol Platt Liebau: Playing the Blame Game

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Playing the Blame Game

As this Washington Times editorial points out, Democrats are offering little in the present Middle East crisis besides a lot of finger-pointing (how unusual - they're trying to exploit a crisis for political gain!).

In fact, on the radio, one can ever hear leftists charging that none of this would have happened if we hadn't gone into Iraq. And the Bush Administration should understand that this meme will grow and spread like a nasty virus unless it does more to make the release of pre-war documents a priority.

The Administration may believe that how we got to war is "water under the bridge" for most Americans -- but that's a fundamental miscalculation. Finis origene pendet (the end depends on the beginning) applies here. If the American people understand that, in truth, Iraq was not a war of choice, they'll see it through 'til the end. If, instead, they're led to believe that it was just a matter of misunderstandings -- however inadvertant or well-intentioned -- it's a much different story. And it becomes easier to see the crises as part of a pattern of mistakes, rather than -- as I believe they are -- a series of "tests" of the West by countries like Iran (whose client, Hezbollah, started bombing just as the UN was about to get around to dealing with its nukes) and North Korea . . . bad actors (like Iraq was) who are, in fact, doing what we've accused them of doing.

6 Comments:

Blogger Greg said...

Carol writes: "The Administration may believe that how we got to war is "water under the bridge" for most Americans -- but that's a fundamental miscalculation. Finis origene pendet (the end depends on the beginning) applies here."

Wow, I couldn't agree more. The sooner the origins of this deadly boondoggle are revealed, the sooner we can go about reversing the damage done by your lying president.

9:30 AM  
Blogger COPioneer said...

mr.stir and mr.head will not rest until President Bush is impeached and out of office. No other result will slick their lust.
It doesn't matter the left has no ideas about the world other than, cut, run, and set up chat rooms for diplomacy with the evil, oops, I mean mean, nope, misguided...no...bad guys?...sheesh, it's just too hard being a PC leftard.

But, I prefer to read Victor Davis Hanson, and he gives a good list of positives here:
"What progress we have made since 9/11 — thousands of terrorists killed, al Qaeda scattered, Europe galvanized about Islamism and sobered about the consequences of its cheap U.S. rhetoric, Iran’s nuclear antics revealed, democracy birthed in the Middle East, Palestinian radicals exposed for their fraud, the United Nations under overdue scrutiny, America much better defended at home — all that came as a result of an often unilateralist posture that risked global alienation by challenging the easy appeasement of the rest of the world. Nothing there to apologize for or change — but much accomplished to be proud of." - VDH

10:26 AM  
Blogger Greg said...

Squeaky clean.

3:21 PM  
Blogger Greg said...

Bush swaggers through Pottery Barn oblivious to the glass crashing down around him.

3:47 PM  
Blogger Marshal Art said...

ditto,

Provide all the "expert" opinions you want, just so long as they agree with you. I assume you think the experts who disagree are buffoons. What a coincidence!

8:34 PM  
Blogger Greg said...

You're right, Carol. Now is the time to go on a public relations offensive. Thanks to Iran's Hezbollah Thugs, a vast majority of Americans and a majority of the International Community again feel very strongly that terrorism must be defeated.

It's time to take advantage of the moment and rally around the cause.

I only wish it weren't necessary!

2:16 PM  

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