Clear And Present Non-Factor

Clear And Present Non-Factor - Last year, as we were getting ready to move into Iraq, the left talked out both sides of its mouth, demanding that we extend what had already been 18 months of diplomatic Schühplottel at the UN even further before attacking a regime that had violated hundreds of pounds' worth of UN sanctions, had engaged in decades of inhuman atrocities, was linked with terrorist groups and had paid money quite openly to terrorists, diverted billions of dollars of oil-for-food money for weapons, bribes and graft, and was believed by everyone to have had WMDs...

BUT

...demanded immediate military action in Liberia, in a civil war that posed absolutely no threat to any significant US interest.

Today, the left - as manifested in its de facto leader, John Kerry - is still exercised about getting meticulous international approval before taking any action that would protect US interests (say, against thermonuclear immolation)...

...but has his saber drawn and is doing his best Clint Eastwood impression in regard to Haiti?

Kerry (D-Mass.) said he would have sent troops to Haiti even without international support to quell the revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

"President Kerry would never have allowed that to get where it is," Kerry said, though he added he's not "a big Aristide fan."

A Kerry administration would have given the rebels a 48-hour ultimatum to come up with a peaceful agreement - "otherwise, we're coming in," he said.

"I would intervene with the international community, and absent an international force, I'd do it unilaterally," he said, adding the most important thing was to protect democracy.

And the US interest in Haiti is exactly what?

This is like Mad How's "135,000 Moderate Moslem Troops" canard; unverifiable, not based in fact - and what Gramma would have called "talking out his ass".

The thought that anyone would trust these...wanker with foreign policy not only astounds me - it makes me say things I may not regret in terms of substance, but certainly in style, later on.

Posted by Mitch at March 4, 2004 05:00 AM