At least, if Klueless Kos Kid Zack Exley has his way, that’ll be the message the Dems will run with in 08.
Message for ’08 Dems: Only cowards think we’re at war
The American people are not cowards. They are not the ones behind this prolonged state of panic. Americans are prepared to walk tall and fearlessly even with the possibility of another attack, even though we know it could kill thousands — because we know that America is not in danger. We live happily with many extremely-unlikely dangers in our lives, and we reject the idea that America should degrade its democracy just because some tiny extremist groups have added themselves to the list. (They are so far down that list, in fact, that you are 390 times less likely to die in a terrorist attack than in an auto accident.)
Add up all the little bands of anti-American terrorists. They can’t invade America. Or any of our allies for that matter. Or anyone. They can’t hurt our economy — unless cowards in government let them. The only thing they can do is try to get in another suck punch sometime. And yeah, it will hurt. But our country, our traditions, our future have nothing to fear.
In the face of our natural American courage, some Republicans will try anything to make individuals focus on the chance of becoming victims. RNC direct mail in 2004 used pictures of children in the Breslan massacre and other scenes of terrorism. The “threat level” program tried to make the infinitesimal chance of being harmed by a terrorist feel inevitable. And many Republicans use fear in their words and speeches everyday: “The terrorists want to kill you! The terrorists want to kill you! The terrorists want to kill you!” (So do a lot of people. But they can’t. So stop obsessing!)
I think I’d rather be called a coward than an idiot. Zach Exley is a bona fide, Grade A, USDA Choice, Idiot
Ah, where to begin, the material is ripe with so much self congratulating delusion that you could spend days picking it apart.
“America is not in danger. We live happily with many extremely-unlikely dangers in our lives, and we reject the idea that America should degrade its democracy just because some tiny extremist groups have added themselves to the list. (They are so far down that list, in fact, that you are 390 times less likely to die in a terrorist attack than in an auto accident.)”
Now why may that be?
Couldn’t have a thing to do with the fact that our men and women in uniform have been staggeringly successful in putting so many of those dirtbags at room temperature and six feet down could it?
That Al Quada’s upper echolon has to spend all it’s time ducking bullets and missiles, those that we haven’t turned into “GOOD” terrorists?
That we’ve been so successful at freezing their money, and boxing them in?
That we’ve taken the point of arab pride in the tyranical thug Saddam, and are turning it into the FIRST arabic democracy, despite all the terrorists best efforts to stop it?
That airports are more secure despite the moaning and bitching of civil libertarians like him about delays and lines, about the unfairness of checking middle eastern travelers extra closly?
How many attacks have failed, or been broken because we’ve taken the fight to them, instead of just turning our backs and trying to whistle it all away. Instead of just waiting for them to hit us we have taken the enitative, we have been offensive rather than defensive. A tactic that any student of war can tell you is the first rule.
Never let your opponent choose the time or place, put him back his heels, take the fight to his backyard.
It’s pretty basic stuff. Only an idiot like him could think that all that we have done doesn’t make any difference. We know it does, since we’ve taken the offensive, how many attacks have occured on US soil?
How many?
Not one?
Now how do you suppose he thinks that came to be?
Warded off by his tinfoil beanie hat with the extra large propeller on top?
I think the odds will swing pretty far in the other direction if we look the other way and let one of those “small extremist groups” bring a dirty nuke into a major city….