Early in Dr Martin Luther King, Jr’s campaign for equality of opportunity for blacks I was skeptical of his motives and methods. Later I came to understand that the changes that his struggle wrought were absolutely essential at that point in our history. Now I see him as truly a Saint compared to today’s ‘civil rights leaders’.
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“Mama, they’re lying to me!” “Make them stop!” CBS reports that Senator Bill Nelson, D-FL, said in regard to the President’s Iraq war strategy: “I have not been told the truth over and over again by administration witnesses, and the American people have not been told the truth.” What a whiner! As a US Senator you’d think he could ferret out the ‘truth’ himself.
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In a Senate hearing recently Senator Barbara Boxer, D-CA, told Secretary of State Rice that we wouldn’t be at war in Iraq if she and the President had children at risk. Her view is that a single, childless woman (or man) is not qualified for the position that Rice holds because she is too prone to commit us to war. Boxer apparently feels that top executive branch officials, Republican or Democrat, must have children in the military in order to properly do their jobs. On that basis she couldn’t have supported Lincoln’s decision to defend the Union. I believe that having a brain is the most important requirement for public service.
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Since President Bush’s speech on his new strategy in Iraq there has been a lot of hand-wringing over Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s “willingness and ability to rein in sectarian militias and cobble together some sort of national reconciliation” (Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics). General Petraeus needs to summon the pompous fart over to his office and tell him what he must do if he doesn’t want to join Saddam in the ground. Stop pussyfooting around with those people. Kick some ass and get the job done!
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A column by Peter Mulhern of RealClearPolitics is well worth reading.