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Wednesday, April 03, 2002 A Case of the Slows What's it take to light a fire under Bush? After 9/11 and 3,000 dead in NYC, it looked like Bush was going to Get Things Done. We overthrew the Taliban, but are now doing a slow dance there. Has one single domestic initiative of his party not been shot down by the Dems? He let Pickering get skewered without putting up any kind of fight against the outrageous slander and character assassination from the Left. Now he can't decide if Israel should kill terrorists or not. Maybe what we have is an apple that doesn't fall far from the tree. George I let Saddam and Iraq off the hook, and now his son wants to let Arafat live to fight another day. Day by day, Bush is squandering his political capital on a dithering approach to all matters domestic and foreign. I'm all for calm, patience, and deliberation in a crisis, but the people need to be informed and involved - told what we're going to do, when and how we're going to do it, and then shown that it's gotten done. As dramatic as the initial results seemed in Afghanistan, we have not destroyed al-Qaida nor the Taliban. These piecemeal efforts at war and policy are simply killing our long term hopes and initial resolve for success. Does anyone really believe the money for terrorists has dried up? Or that banks in the Muslim world are co-operating? Have any Arabs been jailed anywhere for giving money for terror? There's not a bank in the world the U.S. couldn't shut down if we wanted to. Why don't we want to? We know arms are still moving through Iran (and probably Iraq, N. Korea, and maybe China). We have thousands, if not tens of thousands of Muslim terrorist sympathizers and fellow travelers in this country - why haven't we deported them? I believe that we need at least a million more men in uniform and the material and support systems to equip them for action so that we may move effectively an Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen if need be in rapid succession. We will have to occupy and reform these nations and that will take manpower. We will pay for it as I suggest in the blog below. posted by Mark Butterworth | 4:52 PM | |
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