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RonPaulFanInGA
03-14-2014, 02:12 PM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/war-weariness-excuse_784895.html


If only Republican elected officials were half as clear-minded and nearly as courageous as Ms. Szrom in taking on the claim that we all need to defer to, to bow down to, our own war-weariness. In fact, the idol of war-weariness can be challenged. A war-weary public can be awakened and rallied. Indeed, events are right now doing the awakening. All that’s needed is the rallying. And the turnaround can be fast. Only 5 years after the end of the Vietnam war, and 15 years after our involvement there began in a big way, Ronald Reagan ran against both Democratic dovishness and Republican détente. He proposed confronting the Soviet Union and rebuilding our military. It was said that the country was too war-weary, that it was too soon after Vietnam, for Reagan’s stern and challenging message. Yet Reagan won the election in 1980. And by 1990 an awakened America had won the Cold War.

The next president will be elected in 2016, 15 years after 9/11 and 5 years after our abandonment of Iraq and the beginning of the drawdown in Afghanistan. Pundits will say that it would be politically foolish to try to awaken Americans rather than cater to their alleged war-weariness. We can’t prove them wrong. Perhaps it would be easier for a Republican to win in 2016 running after the fashion of Warren Gamaliel Harding in 1920 rather than that of Ronald Wilson Reagan in 1980.

But what would such a victory be worth?

Warlord
03-14-2014, 02:16 PM
MORE WAR

Kords21
03-14-2014, 02:21 PM
Is he going to live stream his enlisting in the Military?

HOLLYWOOD
03-14-2014, 02:31 PM
Strap on the Kevlar Kocksucker Kristal... here's your M-14 and a one way ticket to Kiev, Ukraine. Oh, and take the rest of the bullshit progressive propagandists at The Weekly Standard with you.

How the fuck does this devil show up in print and EVERY TV political/news show weekly? Kristol should give anyone a hint, this country is controlled by progressive Marxist elites using the scummiest media trolls in maintaining the 'global theft machines' aka Banking/Military industrial complexes.

William R
03-14-2014, 03:47 PM
I can't stand that guy

Brian4Liberty
03-14-2014, 03:50 PM
Kristol, still the butt-hurt Marxist/Trotskyite. Should US foreign policy be based on the desire for revenge from petty little men like this? How many tax dollars and American lives can you donate to the Kristol Global Revenge Fund?

jkr
03-14-2014, 04:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3gfMakdlHo

Ender
03-14-2014, 04:28 PM
Funny that he uses Harding as the "bad answer" when Harding was probably one of the best presidents of the 20th century.

Spikender
03-14-2014, 11:09 PM
Fuck Kristol, I was hoping I wouldn't have to see this douchebag's name or face this month but here he is.

unknown
03-15-2014, 06:15 AM
Wow, hes a dick on every level.

MRK
03-15-2014, 06:47 AM
Will no brave leader step forward to honorably awaken us from our unworthy sleep?

What a job this guy has. His ancestors will be proud.

ObiRandKenobi
03-15-2014, 02:15 PM
go on a cruise with bill kristol for as low as $5000


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJjtYBevWg

tommyrp12
03-15-2014, 03:35 PM
It would be downright beautiful if all the passengers were libertarians and boarded the boat, and they went out to sea with Bill Kristol as a captive audience.

It would trump the run bye pie to the face gag, a million fold. In case anyone was not familiar .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHi52z11U8