Posted by
JDComments on Friday, January 12, 2007 6:55:55 PM
Bill Kristol, who is one of my favorite pundits, has written one of his usual bitingly insightful
pieces titled appropriately enough
Boneless Wonders.
As you would expect, it castigates the spineless politicians on both sides who are putting electoral considerations before national security while seeking to take no responsibility for failure or defeat, an extremely difficult juggling act requiring these modern day Solons to contort themselves into the most ridiculous of positions. They really couldn't do any of this if they had any kind of skeletal structure.
I highly recommend you read the article which is short but hardhitting.
One specific sentence towards the end really caught my attention:
And how about Sen. Obama on the Today show? "We're not going to babysit a civil war."
Kristol rightfully calls this nothing more than a soundbite, but why should we allow Obama, the darling of the Left, off so easily.
This flippant remark is actually saying we have no dog in this fight, and that it's none of our business.
Does this mean Barack doesn't understand that the lifeblood of the industrial world, oil, is on the verge of being held hostage by an enemy which is trying to destroy our civilization?
Does it indicate that he does not see that a fleeing US will energize the entire IslamoFascists movement like nothing to date, and that these people who value strength more than anything will claim the prize of having defeated the World's Superpower?
Does he not care that it is almost unanimously thought that a bloodbath involving the deaths of hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives will result from our leaving Iraq prematurely?
Does he not grasp that Iran will fill the void we leave behind, and that their President is making preparations for Armageddon even as we speak?
And if none of this matters to Obama, how does he feel about Darfur, or is it okay for the US to fight where we have no strategic national interests?
Obama is a blank slate, and so far that has been his strength. However, with remarks like this we are starting to be able understand this hero of the Left, and the picture slowly developing is not attractive or encouraging. His lack of knowledge and compassion, so succinctly summed up by this one sentence, should give all the moderates in this country pause, for they indicate that the Liberal darling is not only boneless but brainless as well.