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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (55973)7/24/2004 2:51:43 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 794006
 
Still stupid to throw away a whole class of people unnecessarily.


Operative word: "unnecessarily". Was it unnecessary? Tony Blair certain used much more charm and persuasiveness on his leftists, and came up equally empty. I get the strong impression that the moment any President moved beyond merely talking strong, as Clinton did, and acted, he would lose the left, and that goes triple for any Republican President.

After all, Bush was persuaded to go the UN, and large and costly detour from action, as far as he was concerned. He didn't just hand the reins to Dick Cheney.

Remember how vociferously the ask-yourself-why-they-hate-us crowd opposed the war in Afghanistan, contrary to what they are saying now. "Afghanistan, death of empires!" "the brutal Afghan winter!", etc and so forth.

Once Bush decided to act, do you really think that anything he said could have changed any minds?
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