Everything Old Is New Again

The War on Terror TM is the Cold War and George W. Bush is Harry Truman:

"This is only the beginning," Bush said. "The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future belongs to freedom -- and we will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation."...

"The war began on my watch, but it's going to end on your watch," Bush told the cadets. "By standing with democratic reforms across a troubled region, we will extend freedom to millions who have not known it and lay the foundation for peace for generations to come."

Translation: While you're fighting and dying in the Middle Eastern desert in President Jenna's war against freedom-haters, I'll be sipping mint juleps at Trent Lott's new plantation while Dick Cheney rakes in more profits. God bless America.   

Bush is the anti-Truman, because the buck never stops at his desk. He's already refrerred to the war against terror (twat) as World War III. I'm surprised he didn't channel Karen Carpenter at Westpoint and belt out a version of "We've Only Just Begun"...

The New Cold War, good times will be had by all.

Comments

[itwasntme]

Remember, "the generals" will tell Bush when we've won in Iraq, and what he should do next, presumably draw down the troops.

Maybe they'll just tell Cheney, and he can do it and not have to interrupt Bush's brush clearing in Crawford.

[Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes]

I gotta find out who these generals are and what army/navy/air force/marine corps they belong to. Not one I am familiar with -- although their understanding of strategy, tactics, logistics operations and intelligence makes me think may the Salvation Army, the Austrian Navy, and the Confederate Air Force.

One of the things repulsive about Bush's speech at the academy was the whole my watch/your watch thing. The war on terrorism probably should be dated to Reagan's watch and the Marine Barracks in 1983; however, we invaded Grenada later that week, so it was all forgotten. Maybe from the first attack on the World Trade Center? Maybe from the Achille Lauro? But, it had been going on for a while when he rode into town, backward and singing Sons of the Pioneer's Songs.

As for TWAT, you cannot defeat a tactic. So, they are all twits. The global war against terrorists would scan pretty well. People you can defeat; ideas you can defeat; tactics just morph into something else.

However, we definitely need to spend a bigger percentage of the budget on Star Wars stuff. We've managed to sort of unite Russia and China in disbelief against us; we might need that crap if they can ever get it to work.

[e_five]

And here at home, Our President is trying to remake our society into a Dickens novel.

GLORY!!