Comments on: The One-Two Punch

By: Zachary

Zachary — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:58:12 +0000

I can’t help but feel this is going to come back and bite us in the ass later on down the road.

By: Lamplighter

Lamplighter — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:09:29 +0000

Condi doesn’t appear to be doing the greatest job at State. We promised the Turks we would take care of PKK terrorists coming across their border from Iraq, and didn’t, and now the Turk people (they are a member of NATO) have gone from being pro-US to virrulently anti-US. Our state dept. has a relatively new policy of meeting with dissidents and political prisoners, yet we haven’t followed through. We give billions to Fatah, for short term gain, but what about the long run? Last summer, she pressured the capitulation of Israel in their little war with Hezbollah (albeit Israel still kicked their butts). We haven’t been even making a show of supporting Taiwan, heretofore a staunch ally, leaving them twisting in the wind against mainland China’s saber rattling. Will these weapons, a short run hedge against Iran, turn into a long term problem, used against Israel? Condi needs to get busy.

By: Clyde Conneer

Clyde Conneer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:38:56 +0000

For anyone to be effective at State they must clean house. Bring in some recent veterans of combat with jihadis and people with an America First attitude. The old bowin’ and scrapin’ ass kissin’ diplomatic corps is passe and State is full of that type now. Plus the Clintonistas who are there to undermine President Bush at any cost to American interests should just die. Remember the lying skunk Joe Wilson?

By: Lock & Load

Lock & Load — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:42:11 +0000

It amazes me how soon we forget the opening battleground of the war on terror - Afghanistan. Did we not give the muhajadeen every toy they wanted to kick Russian ass, and now, years later the muhajadeen have morphed into Al Queda, the Taliban and various other problems world-wide. So, WTF??? Are we going to do this all over again so that our next generation of America’s finest will have to go and die in the desert again, fighting against enemies that short-sighted, appeasement oriented foreign policy armed to the teeth??
Condi and Gates need to pay more attention to history, and less to the “put our ass in a sling for the enemy” policy wonks in the State Department - many of whom are Clinton liberal hold-overs who should have been purged by Bush long ago.