Amateur Megalomania

Blogging is difficult when you are mired in despair.

Not that I’m personally depressed at the moment. We’re talking about the normal depression one suffers when viewing the state of the world and determining that things have to get a lot worse before it gets any better.

We’re a few short weeks away from beholding Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Murtha, and possibly Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

In the earlier days of this blog, I’d probably be railing against such a thing, tossing out dark warnings about the future of civilization viz a viz The Islamic War, how we need to show strength to our enemies, that we must never return to the ‘law enforcement’ mentality of the pre-9/11 world, etc…

Over the past year, I figured out it just doesn’t matter anymore.

We’re already weak, incoherent, and muddled. Republican leadership has achieved next to nothing in relation of the hopes I had back in the beginning. It has been worse than ineffective – they’ve squandered a limited store of national Will, failing to rally people in the conflict we’re facing. This failure has marched us backwards, because now it’ll take an even bigger atrocity than 9/11 to stir America to act.

I’m still not convinced Iraq was a monstrous error, but I’m certainly convinced the way the past two years in Iraq was handled is nothing short of a disaster. Bush and team has utterly lost the PR war, and in the modern world, the PR war is even more important than the actual results on the ground.

Look at Tet. Today, an ABC piece has Bush conceding that Iraq might be looking like the Tet Offensive right now. If you don’t recall, the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam was the turning point, where Johnson decided not to run again and the American Will turned against the war. It was the beginning of the end.

And Tet was a massive military victory!

And since the media has been living in a Viet Nam fantasy since, well, Viet Nam, NOTHING happens in Iraq without the Viet Nam filter being applied.

This isn’t a surprise. Politicians aren’t stupid. I don’t even blame the media, really. It is their nature.

But the Republicans, and Bush, have done NOTHING to counter this PR onslaught.

Then the Bush Doctrine of aggressive engagement of terrorism evaporated when Bush pulled the plug on the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.

I guess the Bush Doctrine only applies when convenient. Never mind the fate of our cultural brethren in the Middle East – the ONLY nation over there with a free and open society. It seems we can’t be bothered to support them when they go to the mat with the bad guys.

Recently, Condi Rice compared the Palestinian ‘struggle’ to the Civil Rights movement or the American struggle for independence.

We’re talking about a Palestinian people who danced in the street after 9/11, elected a violent, murderous terror organization as a national government, and continues to fuel the fire of jihad with willing martyrs. Somewhere I must have skimmed over the ‘Founding Fathers Martyrs Brigade’ in the history book.

So not only do we reign in Israel for doing what we would have done, we give the blood enemies of Western Civilization a pat on the head and a fat check for aid.

Why should I give a rip when the Republicans go down in flames?

I hope like hell the Democrats pull it together. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope they can stand up for our Civilization. I hope they can be strong enough to respond when the next massive terror attack kills a few hundred thousand. I’ll line up behind them if they are committed to killing our enemies. Despite the fact that I abhor about every social, economic and tax policy endorsed by the Democratic Party, I’ll pledge support to any party that will take this war seriously.

Now that I’m finding myself pinning the hopes of Western Civilization on Pelosi and Hillary, my despair makes a lot more sense.

Things are going to get much worse before any serious leadership emerges on the national level. With North Korea popping nukes, Iranian scientists observing those tests, and an Iranian leader claiming to -

Have a Connection With God, Since God Said That the Infidels Will Have No Way to Harm the Believers’; ‘We Have [Only] One Step Remaining Before We Attain the Summit of Nuclear Technology’; The West ‘Will Not Dare To Attack Us’

…we’re going to pay for our un-serious leadership on both sides of the aisle.

Good luck to the soon-to-be Democratic leadership. Somebody has to step up here, and I hope you’re up to it.

God help us.

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