Conservative Blog B.S. (part 3)/ Bush Is No FDR!

It’s been awhile since I’ve written a, “Conservative Blog BS” post. Needless to say, that isn’t because some of the neocon blogs don’t give me plenty to write about, because every day is a cornucopia of bs on some of these sites. No, I haven’t written this type of post, not for lack of ammunition, but more because I haven’t been inspired enough to respond to the typical, “global warming isn’t real”, “we’re really making progress in Iraq, but the liberal media won’t report it”, crap. My usual reaction when I read or hear this stuff is to think, “why bother arguing, all the evidence in the world won’t convince this person because they’ve already made up their mind to ignore any facts that don’t concur with the conclusion they want to draw”. That said, occasionally I run across neocon b.s. that is simply too illogical and, insulting to common sense, to be ignored.

Yesterday was one of those times. I was innocently surfing the web, when I came upon a blog espousing an age old neocon favorite, how we could never win World War II if fought today, because the “nambie pambie liberals” would want to cut and run as soon as there were casualties. Now, I know this is going to be a shocker for many of the conservatives out there, so if that’s you please sit down before you read further, NOT EVERY war America fights in is like World War II! In fact, each and every separate conflict has its very own set of circumstances and while some wars, such as World War II, are necessary and clear cut ( because we were attacked, Hitler was a madman who was attempting to conquer the world etc.), the majority of wars are not so black and white. The current Iraq War for instance is a great example of a conflict which was completely unnecessary and if you want to cast it in a World War II mold, then we would fit the part of the Japanese, who attacked preemptively, much better than we would the white hatted America of that generation.

I mean seriously, I know conservatives by nature hate change, but it’s been over sixty years since World War II ended, let it go already!! It’s quite apparent that most of us yearn for the days when things were simple, when America knew exactly who the enemy was, where to find him and how to fight him, but unfortunately those days are over and fighting terrorism is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like fighting a conventional war. For those of you who insist upon comparing the “war on terror”, the war in Iraq and every other modern day conflict to World War II, give this some thought; some of the reasons we were successful in World War II-we had leaders who had a plan and knew what the hell they were doing, we attacked the nations who we’re actually involved in the conflict (for example we went after Germany and Japan, not Switzerland and Mexico), we had true allies who fought along side us-we did not attempt to go it alone, we abided by certain principles of morality such as the Geneva Convention and did not attempt to cast ourselves as the good guys and then when convenient throw our principles to the wind and emulate the actions of the, “bad guys”, we had a President who understood that giving tax cuts to wealthy Americans during a war and then crying that he needed more money to fund the war would probably not be a bright idea etc.

So I’ll tell you what, if you want to make comparisons between World War II and all of America’s modern conflicts, I as a liberal pledge to be just as supportive and “patriotic” as the WWII generation just as soon as you pledge to give me leaders as smart as FDR & Truman (who were democrats, I might add-lol) and to actually go after the people who attacked this country, Osama and Al Qaeda, NOT Saddam and Iraq!