Tuesday, August 31, 2004
No, Mr. President, You Are Not as Dumb as a Doorknob
As much as I love the Jib Jab take on This Land is Your Land, I now have to disagree with the line about who is the intellectual.
It may be past the Democratic Party leaders’ limited intellect, but clear-thinking Republicans will tell you: you cannot "win" a war. Anytime you send your strongest and best young people into harm’s way, you have already lost. War is Hell, you’ve sent your children to Hell, and now they will be changed forever.
Anytime you spill one drop of blood -- yours or theirs -- you’ve already lost. When you’ve damaged the country’s economy, the citizenry’s peace, the planet’s safety, you’ve already lost. This is not a card game, and no one -- no one -- gets to keep all the cards in the end. Please don’t bring your Polaroid cameras and send pictures of your atrocities home to me (as in my March 16, 2004 post). Don’t bring your video camera, Mr. Johnny K, to re-enact your daydreams of glory. And, please, please, little Ms. Lynndie E., don’t bring your digital cameras to record for all posterity your sexual fantasies or your sadistic lust for gore.
President Bush was right on this one (the first time). We cannot "win" this war. We can and will keep power and success out of terrorists reach. But to do so, we have to fight. And in the words of Steppenwolf,
"No matter who’s the 'winner', we can't pay the cost -- there’s a monster on the loose, he’s got our heads into a noose, and he sits there... watching..."
As much as I love the Jib Jab take on This Land is Your Land, I now have to disagree with the line about who is the intellectual.
It may be past the Democratic Party leaders’ limited intellect, but clear-thinking Republicans will tell you: you cannot "win" a war. Anytime you send your strongest and best young people into harm’s way, you have already lost. War is Hell, you’ve sent your children to Hell, and now they will be changed forever.
Anytime you spill one drop of blood -- yours or theirs -- you’ve already lost. When you’ve damaged the country’s economy, the citizenry’s peace, the planet’s safety, you’ve already lost. This is not a card game, and no one -- no one -- gets to keep all the cards in the end. Please don’t bring your Polaroid cameras and send pictures of your atrocities home to me (as in my March 16, 2004 post). Don’t bring your video camera, Mr. Johnny K, to re-enact your daydreams of glory. And, please, please, little Ms. Lynndie E., don’t bring your digital cameras to record for all posterity your sexual fantasies or your sadistic lust for gore.
President Bush was right on this one (the first time). We cannot "win" this war. We can and will keep power and success out of terrorists reach. But to do so, we have to fight. And in the words of Steppenwolf,
"No matter who’s the 'winner', we can't pay the cost -- there’s a monster on the loose, he’s got our heads into a noose, and he sits there... watching..."
