Mr. Sparkle wrote:Indeed it is possible that he is a sincere idiot, but I read it as a reiteration of Limbaugh's "I hope Obama fails" to show the world how wrong they were to criticize Bush! As far as I'm concerned, he's welcome to hope for a terrorist attack to "vindicate" his boss... and whether or not he is simply a drone is immaterial... I only point it for the hypocrisy of wingnuts now being "We're all gonna die! Obama's going to get us all killed!" when a couple of months ago it was time to summon the firing squad if you called "enhanced interrogation" torture.The Preacher wrote:There is a fundamental difference in actually believing that his policies help prevent terrorism (and thus the elimination of them will result in more terrorism) and praying for those acts to occur.
I read through the article. I also don't see where he is hoping for an attack to vidicate Bush. He is restating what a lot of the people that share my side of the ideological argument are saying: stated policy positions of the Obama admin are, in our opinion, not the way to effectively fight radical islam and thus puts us in a more vunerable position.
Quite frankly, we have never fought with kid gloves on until the modern era, and it's proving to not be so effective. Unless you consider carpet bombing of our enemies, using nuclear devices on their cities, or putting suspected enemy collaborators in war camps as being kid gloves. This notion of a noble American way to fight a war is a dangerous new invention of the couch potatoe internet generation (or perhaps bleedovers of the 1960's era hippie ideologies). We need to fight the war willing to win it, not fight it hoping not to break too much furniture in the process.
And if you think our European allies would be so careful if they were the main targets in this fight, you are kidding yourself. They have the luxury of being the moderating voice in this because they are the secondary targets at best.
These policies will make us more vunerable to terrorism. I fully expect, however, that the left will find a creative way to blame any future attack on us on the Bush administration, even though these radicals have been at war with us for decades before we were roused enough to acknowledge them.