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November 9, 2006
Rummy to Be Replaced by a Moonbat?
The big win for Dems bent on losing our war with expansionist Islam may have come not on Tuesday but yesterday, when Bush responded to the disappointing but hardly unusual 6th-year election results by waving a large white flag. Sacking Rumsfeld on the day after the election is hard not to see as groveling before Nancy Pelousy et al. But replacing him with Robert Gates might be worse.
Gates is known as a foreign policy "realist." That means no good guys, no bad guys, just dialogue and appeasement. In 2004 Gates teamed up with Zbigniew Brzezinski (former security advisor to Dhimmi Carter) to produce a policy report that apparently consists of the sort of defeatist mumbo jumbo only the State Department could hold in its belly. From FrontPage:
Entitled Iran: Time for a New Approach, the report reads like a study in self-contradiction. Conceding that Iran has used "Iraqi instability for its own political gain," the report concludes, "Iran nevertheless could play a potentially significant role in promoting a stable, pluralistic government in Baghdad." Noting that "Iranian foreign policy remains captive of the regime's official enshrinement of anti-American and anti-Israeli ideology," the authors nonetheless attribute strained U.S.-Iranian relations to the Bush administration's decision to include Iran in the "Axis of Evil," lamenting that this "undercut several months of tacit cooperation between Washington and Tehran." The undeniable fact of "Iranian incitement of virulent anti-Israeli sentiment" guides the authors to the non sequitur that "Arab-Israeli peace is central to eventually stemming the tide of extremism in the region." From the fact that Iran has been a far from reliable negotiating partner, and that it has failed to "cooperate adequately with the [IAEA's] investigation into its nuclear program," the authors conclude that the answer is…more "constructive dialogue" on the nuclear issue. That Iran has been a perennial source of regional instability prompts the authors to recommend that it is in the "interests of the United States to engage selectively with Iran to promote regional stability." And so on.
It seems the strategy is just to keep blathering incoherently until the Ayatollahs can't stand it anymore. The Bush Doctrine of preempting future 9/11s by taking the fight to the enemy lies in the dustbin of history, where radical Islam was supposed to go.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 9, 2006 9:26 AM
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When the University of Texas announced that it would reinstate the race based admissions program to attract more minorities, Robert Gates, head of the seventh largest university in the United States, Texas A & M, was asked if he would do the same at A & M. His response was a resounding "no". Gates explained that A & M was built to provide an education for ALL Texas youths and that A & M's policy of acceptance on grade point averages would continue, with race not being a factor. Gates stated that A & M would continue to attract the "brightest and the best" of Texas students.
Also, when UT ordered students to remove the American flags being flown in their windows on the eve of the invasion of Iraq because it might be offensive to foreign students, Gates made no such order for A & M. Gates stated to the effect that if foreign students were offensed by the American flag, perhaps they should attend a university in a nation where they were not offended.
I am not sure that Gates will play into the PC crowd as much as you might think.
Posted by: retire05 at November 9, 2006 12:12 PM
retire05, let's hope you're right. Gates could be way to the right of academia and still be way to the left of anybody we would want serving as Secretary of Defense.
Posted by: Van Helsing at November 9, 2006 12:23 PM
It will not be good thing if the Baker crowd from Bush I get their way in Iraq. They were perfectly happy to leave Saddam in power after Gulf War I, and we all know how that turned out. Their lame-ass foreign policy following that successful war lost the election for a guy woud had a 90% approval rating 12 months earlier.
Posted by: Ross Perot at November 10, 2006 8:18 AM
