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Hanson is in real form today, blasting the “whiny nerd” national security policies of the Bush Obama administration.
In 2009, some in the Obama administration decided “war on terror” was too provocative a label for what might be better dubbed “overseas contingency operations.” Apparently, they were thinking a kinder, gentler image would discourage terrorists.
Because only a weak, politically-correct peacenik would drop the phrase “war on terror.”
In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the country’s top military officer have spoken of “a global struggle against violent extremism” rather than “the global war on terror,” which had been the catchphrase of choice.
Hanson:
Accordingly, the self-confessed architect of Sept. 11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was promised a civil trial in New York rather than a military tribunal normally accorded to out-of-uniform murderous terrorists.
Because only an ACLU-loving America-hater would try murderous terrorists in court.
“Richard Reid, like any defendant, is free to plead guilty to criminal charges,” US Attorney General John Ashcroft said.
Hanson:
As part of our efforts to break with the Bush anti-terrorism past, President Obama also vowed he would close the facility at Guantanamo Bay by Jan. 22, 2010 — another deadline that won’t be met.
Because only an unserious terror-lover would want to close Gitmo.
Army Gen. David Petraeus said the U.S. military is “beat around the head and shoulders” with images of detainees held in Guantanamo, the facility in Cuba President Barack Obama has vowed to close. He said closing Guantanamo and ensuring detainees are dealt with by an appropriate judicial system would bolster the nation’s war effort in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Why doesn’t Gen. Petraeus understand we’re at war?
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The War on Terror was always stupid. You can’t make war on an ideology or a tactic.
regardless, it’s Joe Lieberman’s fault.
Of course, this post raises the question of why anyone takes anything Victor Davis Hanson says seriously.
You call this taking it seriously?
Orahama would have to be on vacation while he ignores a PDB saying Bin Laden Determined to Strike in America to have commercial jets fly into buildings a few months later killing 3,000 people. THEN he would be serious about terra…. /s
completely off-topic, but not to be missed: d r i f t g l a s s completely dismantles Joe Klein.
Not at all, yet I know there are folks within the Village who actually do pay attention to his ramblings. Why is totally beyond my comprehension.
Oh, totally. Cheney, especially.
Ahhh! Wingnuts , don’t ya just love ‘em ?
Next thing you know Hanson will be calling him “General Betray-Us”
Ps Who the fuck is Victor Davis Hanson ?
And why does he matter ?
Victor Davis Hanson
That was certainly my first question.
mmmplop
Unending
occupationwar means never having to say you’re sorry.(Not that Petraeus is wrong in this circumstance.)
Hope that Gary Brecher will take a roundhouse swing @ Victor Davis Hanson;
Victor Hanson: Portrait of an American Traitor
By Gary Brecher
http://www.exile.ru/print.php?ARTICLE_ID=7843&IBLOCK_ID=35
There is a reason that he subsists on wingnut welfare. It just makes clear the point that being right(as in correct) precludes one from the public debate.
Nuther fucking punk who never humped a ruck.
Lt Col Bob Bateman is a military historian as well as light col and he’s had a few run-ins with Hanson over the years.
They don’t get along.
It is amazing that all these warmongers always found a good reason why they shouldn’t serve. Hell, I’m a hippie kid from Ca and I spent eight years in the infantry. This was in the late 70′s when I was more likely to be spat upon rather than thanked.
Just to go wildly off topic, but does anyone know in there are any plans to follow the Prop8 trial in any detail? It comes to mind since some of the pro Prop 8 seem to be camera shy.
Jane has a fresh cross-post already in progress: “Shaking off the Hangover of the Primary Wars”
I am shocked! Victor Davis (“Factless”) Hanson has published more inaccurate information. In other news, water still wet, sky still blue.
Got some track lighting that is in need of some serious refocusing. Here’s to a great 2010.
Hell, even if he was on vacation, I’d wager he couldn’t miss an American city going down the way of NOLA.
Victor Davis Hanson is a Self-Decorated War Hero billeted in Fresno, California, where he produces raisins. After they are fermented, this top-secret raisin-based explosive is used to blast Osama bin Ladin and DFHs–the latter admittedly located closer to Fresno, such as the antiwar group Peace Fresno BRUTALLY EXPOSED by Michael Moore in “Fahrenheit 9/11″–into smithereens. Smithereens, I tell you!
Remember what Moore said about Peace Fresno: They wave anti-war signs on street corners. They’ve been infiltrated by an “information-gathering” spy from the Fresno Police Department. They meet in comfy chairs in members’ living rooms to compile, read, and circulate information. And perhaps, most damning, as a Tupperware container of home-baked treats circulated, “They eat cookies,” Moore intoned, adding ominously, “Some have… more than one,” as a Running Dog of Non-Violent Dissent went back for a second.
Gee! I still can’t get over that people don’t remember that General Patraeus was the guy in the first part of the war that was to train the Iraqies, and did such a fucked up job of that they promoted Him.
He used our money to buy off the bad guys, and more troops in the surge, and then was hailed because more worked with both money and men.
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with our Government we hail and promote those who are just less then perfect.
Now the ass is over both wars, and similarly not much is getting better either place with Him in charge, yet more is being added at His request.
“War on Terror” is an oxymoron.
Ick.
I’d stumbled on Hanson’s writings on the Greek wars and classical era, and found some of them interesting. But wow, does the man appear to have some … ‘issues’… the man doesn’t appear to distinguish the forests from the trees in the modern world.
Sad, really.