tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post114840204904136017..comments2024-01-11T07:40:01.736-05:00Comments on The Stopped Clock: The Democrats and IraqAaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523334580402022332noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post-1148902677438381382006-05-29T07:37:00.000-04:002006-05-29T07:37:00.000-04:00It would be, except that the "everybody" in questi...It would be, except that the "everybody" in question includes mostly people who are running (in part) on a platform of "Bush messed up and we will do it better." Once you promise to do it better, the burden shifts to you to show what you will do and why it will be better. <BR/><BR/>Look at it this way, one side is saying "we will keep on doing what we are doing and hope the results get better." The other side is saying we will do something else. I can see what the "old thing" was and I can listen to people on NPR analyzing it every day, it is on the news every night and generally involves dead GIs coming home in bags while the Iraqi social structure crumbles. All the Dems have to do is show me something (rapidly approaching "anything") more likely to succeed than where we are now, and they will get my, and most everyone else's, vote.<BR/><BR/>CWDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post-1148676309769885582006-05-26T16:45:00.000-04:002006-05-26T16:45:00.000-04:00The problem with that response is that the Republi...The problem with that response is that the Republican Party is not just President Bush. If it is good enough for the party coming into the midterm elections, or good enough for a Republican Presidential hopeful, to pretend "stick it out" is a plan, why isn't it good enough for everybody?Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16523334580402022332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post-1148581761444254762006-05-25T14:29:00.000-04:002006-05-25T14:29:00.000-04:00“But seriously, why is it that only the Democrats ...“But seriously, why is it that only the Democrats are expected to formulate an advance a plan, while the Republicans are given carte blanche to propose the meaningless choice between "sticking it out" and "pulling out now"?” – precisely because we already have a nonsensical “policy” so if someone wants to campaign on the idea that they could do better, it behooves them to be able to explain why there policy would be better and what it would be . . . candidly, I don’t think it would be all that hard to formulate a better plan than what is in place now.<BR/><BR/>“No matter how cynical you may be, or even if you would view it as a sufficiently successful conservative policy, it seems unlikely that the next Republican presidential candidate will be pitching a "Replace Hussein with a good totalitarian despot" policy”. – They may not be “pitching” it, but they bloody well out to be thinking it. Right now, a relatively secular despot who did a little bit better job of respecting human rights than either his predecessor or the mullahs would look pretty darn good.<BR/><BR/>CWDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com