Winners and losers
It's astonishing, I feel, that when a politician tells the truth, his opponents leap on it as if it were a mistake (and, rather predictably, rush to tell the lie that he did not).
The "war on terror" cannot be "won". The Republigoons have lied over and over saying it could. It's not a thing that can be won or lost in any real sense, and even if you could view it that way, it would prove intractable.
Saying that it's a reasonable aim to lessen acceptance for terrorists in some parts of the world is the first sign of responsibility, or adherence to the truth, that the Bushistas have indulged in. It doesn't do Kerry any credit to say "Absolutely", the "war" can be won. How utterly dishonest of him. He confirms with each passing day the impression the outsider has of him: a political animal, a say-anything crawler, a toad. He doesn't stand for anything, it seems. He doesn't have convictions. He's just whatever Bush is that people like and whatever he isn't that they like too.
Of course, Bush's people are saying he didn't really mean we wouldn't win it. He'll make it "crystal clear" that we will win it, blah, blah. His excursion into the truth did not last long.
Oh for a man who would stand up and say "We will work to make you feel safe. We can't promise it, because to promise would be to lie -- there is no way absolutely to stop those determined to hurt you from hurting you, but we can promise to do all we can."
Oh for a man who would stand up and say that in address to the whole world, not just those parts of it that have a large lobby in the US. He'd be worth our American friends' vote, and ours too.
posted by Dr Zen @ 11:43 am
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