–is the way I’m paraphrasing it.
For his part, Jim Geraghty offers this response in his “Morning Jolt”:
Madam Secretary, with all the respect due to your office: Shut up.
Your job is to represent us, not to tell us what we can and cannot say in response to American policy and overseas events. Some of the Afghanis most likely to allegedly get inflamed by the remarks made stateside are willing to throw acid on a girl for going to school. I don’t really care what inflames them. I’d kind of like to see the worst of them in flames.
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As a prominent American leader said, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
That leader, of course, was Hillary Clinton in 2003.
These people shot and killed American soldiers, Madame Speaker and Mr President.
If you really feel the need to apologize to murderers for what they deem provocation, you can certainly do so — but we’d most of us prefer you did so after you “inadvertantly” dropped a series of mountain-top removing ordnance on Taliban strongholds.
Christ, do we ever live in a backward country these days, where our enemies are respected and pandered to while our soldiers are infantalized, our allies are berated, and our productive citizens punished and beset with class warfare tactics and the politics of envy by a class of permanent politicians who fancy themselves philosopher kings and aspire to “benevolent” despotism.
Up is down. Black is white. Hall is Oates. And Sara isn’t smiling, but is more lolling her head in fractured circles, zoomed out on meth and suddenly terrified of both Garden gnomes and Japanese selvage.
Good for Geraghty. I continue to look forward to the day when every interview with a Beltway insider begins with the question, “So what’s it like, being a reprehensible hypocrite?”
How, I wonder, are Republicans inflaming the situation?
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
These are the same people who declared Iraq a lost cause when it was to there advantage to do so in 2006.
Fuck them.
The surest way to get treated with nothing but contempt from the “elites” is to obey the law, respect other people, and mind your own business.
Like Reynolds says — chop off a few heads and see how quick they’ll bow down to us.
Head-chopping is really nasty, messy work, and more physical labor than I want to do. I’d recommend taking a page from the President’s life-long adviser, and simply blowing up the people and things that you don’t like.
I saw some video of the protests this morning, and observed if ever a street needed an application of napalm, that was the street…
If it were up to me, and obviously it is not, I’d send all of our c-130s and Chinooks over there and start evacuating everyone on the ground right now. We could wait until they start to scramble over the munitions and send them all to Allah.
Leigh, too Vietnam. I’m thinking we should go, but more in a Sherman’s march to the Sea kinda way.
Scorched earth works, too. If that whole part of the world was turned to smoldering rubble, the only thing that would be different is that it would be smoldering. The whole fucking region looks exactly the same way it did in the 30’s and 40’s. Who’d notice?
All I know is, you don’t get ride of cockroaches by apologizing to the garbage.
LB, I think you may have started a new genre of one liners, even with the typo.
While I can’t approach your level, how about:
You can’t get rid of the Democrat establishment by apologizing to the GOP establishment.
Squid, there are no problems that cannot be solved with a proper application of high explosives.
All problems can be solved by the application of chocolate.
Sometimes, the application should come in the form of 1 kg slugs traveling at .99c.
leigh says February 28, 2012 at 1:20 pm
If it were up to me, and obviously it is not, I’d send all of our c-130s and Chinooks over there and start evacuating everyone on the ground right now. We could wait until they start to scramble over the munitions and send them all to Allah.
Load up everything we brought. Every foot of wire. Empty every barrier and fold it and pack it home. Every piece of garbage. In other words everything we brought. Make it like we were never even there. And leave by way of Pakistan. Tell them, They’re your problem now assholes.
Inform the leaders of Afghanistan that from now if their Taliban causes us any more trouble we won’t send troops. We’ll just pick some map coordinates and bomb the shit out of them.
Too many innocent people get killed for the idealists and the naîve that way. So we’ll wait until the next bad day when we lose another 5000. Then we can bomb away and not have to feel guilty about it.
Unless we lose a city.
Then it’s gutcheck time.
What Mueller said.