tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post9119430492394605909..comments2024-03-18T05:15:30.666-04:00Comments on Foma*: The Four Fails: Prologueyellojkthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-17741693079605775272009-01-12T08:41:00.000-05:002009-01-12T08:41:00.000-05:00Jon Swift hilariously skewers the Since 9/11 Meme...Jon Swift <A HREF="http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/president-bushs-legacy-one-of-our.html" REL="nofollow"> hilariously skewers</A> the Since 9/11 Meme. <BR/><BR/>I'm giving Dubya a pass on actual culpability on the attacks but he clearly could have done more to prevent them. His karmic role should have been as a palate cleansing caretaker president, but events pushed him into the history books. He had an enormous opportunity and squandered it epically. Without 9/11 he couldn't have screwed things up to one tenth the degree that he has.yellojkthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592683505688819187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-11452509558239311802009-01-12T08:27:00.000-05:002009-01-12T08:27:00.000-05:00I would push it back and say both Sept. 11 and the...I would push it back and say both Sept. 11 and the handling of its aftermath, which includes Iraq. (Not that I believe Saddam was behind the 9/11 attacks, but there's no way the Iraq adventure could have been pushed through without 9/11 as context.)<BR/><BR/>One of the things that utterly boggles my mind is the latest Bush apologist line being bandied about, which is "He kept us safe." The logic is that because we haven't been attacked <I>since</I> 9/11, this is a big achievement, as if 9/11 was somehow an inexplicable event, not his fault but really Clinton's, etc. Whatever. Nine months in power and multiple "Bin Laden determined to strike inside the US" memos sort of put him firmly on the hook, as far as I'm concerned.<BR/><BR/>To be intellectually honest, I can't say that I necessarily believe that the 9/11 attacks wouldn't have happened under President Gore; I think there was a good deal of bipartisan denial on the issue. But I don't think that Gore would have used them to build public support to invade Iraq, with the subsequent negative consquences for the military, the Afghan war (which would have happened one way or another), US worldwide prestige, and all the fucking dead people from said Iraq war.<BR/><BR/>Of all the many reasons to wish that the 9/11 attacks had never happened, one not too far down the list is the fact that without them, Dubya would have been an Electoral College fluke one-termer of no great historic impact, upon whom we'd probably be looking back with nostalgia for his comical antics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11920826.post-71902160468869190442009-01-11T23:05:00.000-05:002009-01-11T23:05:00.000-05:00In a word - Iraq. The premise was a lie, and they...In a word - Iraq. <BR/><BR/>The premise was a lie, and they knew it. The loss of life has been staggering. I know Saddam was a "bad man", but has anyone looked at Mugabe over in Zimbabwe? It was not the US's problem to solve, unless we commit to removing all the "bad men" from all countries unilaterally.<BR/><BR/>I really must find some time to read this self-serving document.Mooselethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16874418427786990740noreply@blogger.com