Weak Republican Foreign Policy #253: Burning our Partners
Just like those cop shows, you have to rely on informants. Some help destroy deadly criminal operations. Sometimes one bad organization lifts itself out of the muck to do great things that benefit a community. Over time, communities can find peace that evaded them for decades.
But when the cops stiff their informants, start causing them pain, the relationship gets broken. The possibilities for a peaceful community are killed.
Sure, we can say the criminal informant is still a criminal. But we can also say the community is harmed when cops betray. The community has to ask why the cop was motivated to act shortsightedly. And everytime another gangwar erupts, the community remembers bitterly how everything would be better if that cop hadn’t been an ass.
You know what I mean? Unfortunately, in the episode I’m referring to, hundreds and thousands could die. Developing new allies is wise. Betraying them is a foreign policy weakness, just another new way Republicans have developed to lose the War for American Security.
July 26th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Give me a break! You’re missing the entire point of not dealing with Syria.
1. Given a choice between Syria and Iraq, it’s Iraq first, then Syria.
2. The fact that we missed an opportunity for Syria to pull the leash on Hezbollah is typical of liberal thinking: take the easy way out and damn the consequences.
Hezbollah must be destroyed!
I don’t want ‘em leashed. I want ‘em dead.
3. I hope the days are past when we no longer feel compelled to sell out to scumbag regimes like that in Syria. Granted, we have a ways to go - especially if liberals keep getting in the way of domestic oil drilling.
Finally, if any political side is trying to deep-six our country in the war on militant Islam, look no farther than your buds at the New York Times, Daily Kos, Code Pink Women for Peace, Moveon.org, Senator Durbin, etc.
And I know that you know what I’m talking about.
Our enemies use their soundbites for resolve.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:30 am
As for me, I prefer appeasement, surrender and enslavement Have you any understanding how difficult it is to get blood stains out of a decent berber carpet?
Besides, currently our enemies just chortle at our Jerry Lewis In Chief. Clearly, they must be French.