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Monday, December 01, 2003
Dinner, a movie, maybe later an invasion of Ann's Sunni Triangle, if you know what I mean....
You're a busy Conservative Gal on the go. You don't have time to post on your blog much less clean your rifle after a long day of shooting from the porch. And when the man of your dreams is deader than Bob Dole's dick, well, who is a skeletal humanoid with man-hands supposed to date even if she had the time to track him down and chain him to her Sealy Posturepedic?
One could try Mystery Date, of course:
Busy girls today aren't just meeting potential prom dates, they're solving mysteries as well! Pick up the electronic toy phone and hear 24 different boys give clues! Who'll be your date for the big night? Requires 3 "AAA" batteries (not included). For 1 to 4 players.
....but those AAA batteries may be otherwise occupied. So, in the interest of humanity, I took it upon myself (with Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match...chiming in my ears) to help out a shiksa who needs a shtupping like nobodies business. Literally.
Ann Coulter, meet Adam Teiichi Yoshida. He's an "ultra-conservative political commentator and general annoyance to the left." (which comes as a suprise to those of us on the left who haven't been annoyed by him, generally or specifically, or even heard of him for that matter) who enjoys pina coladas, getting caught in the rain, and colonial aggression. Oh, and did we mention that he's mighty cute when he babbles?:
In the past I have often referred to the Democratic Party as the ‘party of treason.’ By this I do not mean that all Democrats are traitors, far from it. Many people are Democrats out of family loyalty, long-time association (such as Georgia Senator Zell Miller, my favourite Democrat), racial solidarity, or general ignorance of political issues. The problem is as such: America’s many loyal Democrats lack a party. The Democratic Party itself is a disloyal institution.
[snip]
The Democratic Party either needs to rediscover its Americanism or it needs to be destroyed. So long as one major party remains in a state where its fidelity to the nation’s cause can be called into question no political system can be long stable. It’s time for the decent, loyal, and patriotic Democrats of the world to take back their party from the Bill Clinton’s and Howard Dean’s citizens of this world that have made it post-American and post-Patriotic.
...and then there's this:
The media has tried to spin the increase in the number of attacks outside of the so-called ‘Sunni Triangle’ as a sign that the enemy is gathering strength. This is exactly the opposite of the truth. The increasing combat efficiency of the Fourth Infantry Division and a lack of support for the resistance among the general population have forced them to seek other ground for operations. The strong progress made towards the development of new governments and economic revitalization in the North and South seriously undermine the ability of the enemy to operate anywhere in the country. The attacks in regions outside of the triangle are occurring for two reasons. First, US forces are increasingly well protection(sic) while native Iraqi forces remain soft targets. Second, the progress made in reconstruction seriously threatens the ability of the insurgents to continue to fight; especially as the progress being made raises the possibility that the Iraqi rebels might soon find that their main enemy is a US-backed Iraqi Army.
There is a constant cry in the media, from armchair Generals, from various experts, and from politicians of all stripes that there need to be more ‘boots on the ground’ in Iraq. Yet, I fail to see just what purpose that would serve. The Iraqi resistance is not an army in any traditional sense of the word, there are now fixed battlements to man. An increase in American forces in-country would simply leave more targets for suicide bombers and ambushes. It is far better, I think, to risk having too few forces in the country than to risk another Beirut.
The Administration has exactly the right strategy for US forces in Iraq. Coalition forces are steadily reducing the strength of the enemy while rapidly building up the native resources with which to confront them. This should be thought of as a Colonial war, like many fought by the British. In these wars, the number of British regulars on the ground was always kept to the absolute minimum, with much of the actual fighting being done by locally recruited forces. Building up a strong Iraqi army would have other advantages as well: recruitment, especially if the recruits were very well-paid, would drain away manpower from the resistance also, a few years down the road, a professional, well-trained, and well-equipped Iraqi Army could prove to be a useful ally in unscheduled future wars.
Where, I assume that they would "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
See? Wouldn't they just be darling together?
If only we can get Ann over that little issue she may have with Adam. After all, he is...Canadian.
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