The Passing Parade: Cheap Shots from a Drive By Mind

"...difficile est saturam non scribere. Nam quis iniquae tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se..." "...it is hard not to write Satire. For who is so tolerant of the unjust City, so steeled, that he can restrain himself... Juvenal, The Satires (1.30-32) akakyakakyevich@gmail.com

Thursday, July 03, 2003

KILLING KRUGER WITH YOUR MOUTH: I like the President, I even voted for him, which is more than I did for his father, but he at times he does things I find intensely annoying. His recent “bring them on” challenge to the fedayeen in Iraq is one of these things. I imagine he and his advisors think it makes him sound tough, but when I hear him say these things what I hear is a Yale frat boy trying to prove his manhood using the lives of other men’s sons. Someone in the Pentagon or in Congress should tell the President that Central Command’s mission is difficult enough without the Commander in Chief trying to display his cojones and inviting our enemies to take potshots at our troops. The men in Iraq do not have squadrons of Secret Service agents protecting each and every one of them; the President should remember that he is probably the heavily guarded person on this planet, and that it is easy to issue challenges to Iraqi nut jobs when you do not have to bear the consequences of your challenges.
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