February 21, 2004, More Good News...
This week's visit to Pravda gives us this short, but to the point story: the Taliban are re-grouping and promising unprecedented attacks on the United States. Contrary to popular myth, goes the report, the Taliban were not defeated, so much as dispersed to the mountains amidst the semi-anarchy that is Afghanistan (to this day, the United States continues to stymie efforts for international troops to provide security much beyond the capital Kabul). Having failed to eradicate this particular cancer, Taliban tumors are reemerging, and promising more havoc.
Not to be too cynical (as if its possible these days), but this is not a bad time to introduce you to this wonderful resource prepared by the blogger formerly known as Zizka and now contributing to Seeing the Forest, John Emerson . What is this resource? Its an annotated narrative of the President's unnatural business and other connections to high ranking Saudis, including the bin Laden family and its minions, and suggests, quite convincingly, that the "War on Terror TM" against what amount to Saudi-trained and Saudi sponsored, Saudi terrorists, cannot conceivably be won when our own leader is, shall we say, "compromised" vis a vis dealing with the Saudis (I realize all our leaders may be to some extent, but check out the Zizka piece-- as I said: unnatural).
So, the President's bona fides in the "War on Terror TM" are suspect: if he fails on "national security", I suppose he can always turn to his record on the economy and the environment... oh wait...
Further, as I noted recently, his own "base" may turn on him for not executing gays (or otherwise reactivating the Inquisition) for having the audacity to think that they have the right to marry. I should note I saw Bill Maher last night on HBO (I usually don't like him) interviewing Sen. George Allen (R-VA), and one of the questions was "why will the Republic fall if gays are allowed to marry in some states?" Allen's hemming and hawing answer was that because of full faith and credit, other states that found gay marriage morally reprehensible would have to recognize it. Ironic that this senator comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia: he might realize that for the better part of this nation's first century, states that found slavery anathema nonetheless had to recognize the rights of slave owners from other states (the reason the Underground Railroad's terminus was in Canada).
I had originally thought gay marriage was a bad issue for Democrats. I stand corrected: by launching a certain-to-fail culture war issue on this, Bush may be in the perverse position of not going far enough to please his bloodthirsty fire and brimstone "base", while the heavy-handedness will most assuredly drive fence-sitting moderates to the Democratic side. Plus, John Kerry's political ju-jit-su on this issue (and come to think of it, everything else) kind of removes this as the true "wedge issue" it might be against the right candidate.
I don't know. Its February; is Kerry (and I understand from an Edwards e-mail that he too is beating Bush in head to head polls) peaking just too damned early? The call for the fall of the Bushmen may become unstoppable at some point-- or maybe not. I do think the White House policy of sweeping anything unsightly under the rug is starting to backfire: there are too many obvious lumps in the rug, such as... maybe Bush could and should have stopped 9-11... why DID we attack Iraq when it seems more and more obvious that every single reason given by the President was known to be a lie at the time he said it... Valerie Plame... the National Guard fiasco...
Sure, catching Osama (place your "OBL pool bets" now; I predict the story of his capture will first air on the American media on the morning news cycle on October 26th, my birthday-- and Hillary Clinton's) will help Bush, but it may be too little too late by then. (The OBL pool winner will get a talking dog mug, and an autographed copy of my book (which is bound to be written and published by then). Place your bets in comments, or if you like, in e-mail to me. Offer not valid in Wyoming.)
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Kevin Phillips new book on the Bushes "American Dynasty" also goes into the issue of the family's links to the Saudis. It's meticulously researched. I first MET Phillips in my freshman Polisci class (here I date myself) in 1968 at Colgate. He was a Colgate grad who came back to lecture on his ground breaking book The Emerging Republican Majority which proved prohetic. He is still a Republican but broke ranks with the Bushes and his book goes into detail on the family's Mid East business dealings (I bought the book since I am a fan of Philips, going back to my college days).
Posted by Joe Gandelman at February 22, 2004 10:52 PM
Whoever leaked the day to you was wrong. (Was it that same person in an undisclosed office who outed Plame?) It's really scheduled for Mary Poppins's birthday (the date of which is left as an exercise to the googler). But anyway, what have you got against Wyoming? Wasn't that Cheney's nominal for Constitutional purposes home state? I sense a suspicious connection here ....
Posted by Ayn Clouter at February 23, 2004 09:20 AM
Ayn--
You're on to me. Although, I think you misread the communique: Osama will be captured on HITLER's birthday, LOCAL TIME; yes, here in the USA, it will still be Mary Poppins' birthday-- but that wasn't what Dick and Donny had in mind... they were going for the poetry of LAST century's greatest monster's birthday being the day we catch THIS century's greatest monster.
Now some wise ass noted the possibility of capture on OBL's OWN birthday-- but that leaves 6 choices: March 10,April 7, 1957, June 28, 1957, July 28, 1957, July 30, 1957, and October 3, 1957. (I'd rule out the last one: OBL has just about NO Libra characteris
tics). You may as well throw darts as believe THAT.
Wyoming has almost no one who reads blogs (because it has almost no people). Also-- Wyoming may have been a sham address when he was running, but seeing as the heretofore "undisclosed location" is Jackson Hole, WY, Dick is certainly living there NOW. (I was going to also include Texas, but Texas law apparently allows terrorist capture pools, after all.)
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