Quote Of The Day
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Partisan Hacks, The War On Terrorism“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.”
- Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan
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June 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 pm
When you have John Edwards delaring that “terrorism” is nothing but a bumper sticker slogan, it will take a significant even for people to wake-up.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I personally think the term “War on Terror” needs to be dropped.
You cannot declare war on a tactic, that’s like declaring a “War on Grade Point Averages” just who are you going after?
I prefer “War on Islamic Fundamentalism” as it wasn’t “terror” that attacked us, it was Islamic Fundamentalists.
June 4th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
People keep totally missing the very valid point that John Edwards made – the phrase “War on Terror” has become a meaningless bumper sticker, a sound byte, a buzz-phrase if you will, which being used to justify all sorts of things that do little or nothing to actually prevent terrorism, many of which we would never stand for otherwise.
What he wants is for us to stop just throwing the words around and do something constructive and useful to reduce and prevent terrorism. Like impeaching Bush and Cheney (that’s my line, not his).
June 4th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
As I’ve said many times before, we may have to go through two or three more presidents before we finally get one who both understands what it will take to win this war and has the courage to do it in spite of the political and diplomatic risks.
President Bush has plenty of the latter but not nearly enough of the former. A few of the ‘08 candidates look promising on the former but are suspect on the latter, or vice versa. I have yet to see one who has both.
June 9th, 2007 at 12:18 am
wow… its quotes like the one above that really makes it clear why democrats still have almost all state wide offices, both senate seat, 3 out of 4 congressional seats, and super majorities in both chambers in Little Rock.