Liberals: The Sixties Are Over
By Steve Boggess (08/28/05)
Ronald Reagan, in my mind was one of the greatest presidents to have occupied the White House. I believed this at a time when I paid no attention to politics.
Bill Clinton’s administration came along and ushered in the decade of political correctness. That correctness, unfortunately, still exists today.
Now, unless one has a good opinion of George W. Bush, then it’s a slow news day.
Maureen Dowd strikes again in her New York Times column in which she again just can’t say enough bad things about the president. After she dispenses with how a past bureau chief for The Times took some young reporters to meet with former President Nixon right before the 1992 New Hampshire primary, she gets into the accusations that I have seen become the regular commentary of her columns.
Maureen Dowd and Arianna Huffington must be meeting at lunchtime to discuss ways in which they will assassinate the character of President Bush.
In her column, she says that the younger Bush is staying in Iraq too long. She mentions former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s comments in a Times article, where he says: “Any effort to explain Iraq as we are making progress is nonsense.” And that the Democrats proudly carry the ‘Iraq is a quagmire’ banner everywhere there is a protest.
Maureen also mentions the banner that was stretched across the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln as an end to major hostilities on an artificial deadline. The banner was representative of the end of a ten month long deployment for the crew of that aircraft carrier in support of Operations Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom.
Maureen says you know you’re in trouble when Henry Kissinger gives you advice on how to exit a war, a reference to an op-ed article Mr. Kissinger wrote in the Washington Post. She left out the differences between the wars in Vietnam, and Iraq.
Different time and place, Maureen.
In her article, she talks about how Mr. Kissinger, the former Secretary of State in the Nixon administration, said that Mr. Bush has a few things to accomplish: train the Iraqi Army. (This has been in progress for a while now.)
Make the Shi’ites stop hating the Sunnis and the Kurds stop hating everyone. (This is a cultural matter, nothing to do with us.) Stop the Iranians from creating a theocratic dictatorship in Iraq. (This is between the Iranians and the Iraqis.)
She also states that our troops have to defeat the insurgency, and Bush needs to keep domestic support for the war. Both are still happening.
Journalists like Maureen Dowd, and anti-war moms like Cindy Sheehan need to come back to modern reality. The sixties are over. You can protest all day long and the war will still go on for as long as it takes us to get the Iraqi Army up to independently defend Iraq.
You can drive a bus fueled on vegetable oil (are you listening, Jane Fonda?) on a cross country tour protesting the war and bring messages from Iraqi war veterans who are also protesting the war, but she doesn’t mention who these veterans are. This anti-war tour is actually her out promoting her new book.
Now we hear that the troops will be in Iraq until 2009. This should not come as a surprise to anyone. Much still needs to be done in Iraq without worrying about a deadline to bring the troops home, or how many are killed on a daily basis.
Are you listening, liberal media?
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