Instapundit Gives Iraqis a Big Purple Finger.

June 17, 2014

WAPO: Obama’s Iraq Disaster.

In 2011, the situation in Iraq was so good that the Obama administration was actually trying to take credit for it, with Vice President Joe Biden declaring that Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.”

Now in 2014, as Iraq descends into chaos, Democrats are trying to blame the fiasco on — you guessed it — George W. Bush. “I don’t think this is our responsibility,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, declaring that the unfolding disaster in Iraq “represents the failed policies that took us down this path 10 years ago.”

Sorry, but this is a mess of President Obama’s making.

Yep.

Posted at 10:00 am by Glenn Reynolds
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LOL.
Such a short-timer, these law professor warriors are...  (He doesn't cite his source here, but that WaPo link goes to ... Marc A. Thiessen (born 1967) is an American author, and political commentator, who served as a speechwriter for George W. Bush (2004–2009) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (2001–2004).
LOL.  That's his expert source telling us "this is a mess of President Obama’s making"? Well I guess the poor guy's gotta eat, but smart money says only insta-dummies are still eating up the propaganda that Mr. Thiessen's expertly serving up these days...  There's a reason missionaries do this work for free, and don't tax others with their fantastical beliefs. More on Thiessen's background: Thiessen grew up in Upper East Side in Manhattan, where both his parents were doctors and "left-of-center liberal Democrat types." He is a graduate of the Taft School (1985), a private prep school in Connecticut. He graduated from Vassar College (BA in 1989) and completed post-graduate studies at the Naval War College. LOL. Another academic would-be warrior, it seems...)

Here's more from Reynolds, back when he was cheerleading Iraqi democracy, big-time, saddling them up with championship rings and all the Western trappings:

FROM IRAQ:

I’ve been reading the coverage, and watching the pundits. This appears to be the new line of dissent:

“Yes, Iraqis voted today in massive numbers. But voting isn’t democracy."

I agree. But that’s also like saying that the best college basketball team didn’t win the NCAA championship. It may be true, but they ARE wearing the rings. Wanna see my purple finger?

Meanwhile, one of Andrew Sullivan’s readers suggests: “Why not ask people to wear blue marker on their index fingers this week, as a sign of solidarity and a tip of the hat to the courage of the Iraqis today?”

Good suggestion. I hope that the meme spreads.

And read this post on turnout by Roger Simon: “Before the spin doctors get a hold of the ‘how big was the turnout’ question in Iraq (60%? 70%?) and use that to denigrate this great step forward that has just taken place, let’s remind ourselves that turnout in recent US Presidential elections is barely over 50% of eligible voters and that in the nascent days of our democracy, 1824, it was 26.9%.”

Posted at by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 30, 2005 at 1:57 pm

Well the meme didn't hold, Professor.
Nor did the temporarily established democracy, at gunpoint.  Once the guns were gone, it seems the region reverted to what comes naturally:  the desire for a Islamist religious state to rival Israel's:  one set-aside for the Jews to be dominant citizens, one set aside for the Islamacists, who like the Israelis, wish to negotiate and enforce their own borders.

Turns out, you really can't impose democracy at gunpoint.  Even with finger-painting memes, and all the computer geeks in the world fighting the good fight safely behind their keyboards...

Luckily, this is not America's fight.
Luckily, we are not a religious state here.
Luckily, we have the benefit of a Constitution here that forbids the abuses that are now taking place in the West Bank, as the Israeli authorities arrest hundreds of innocents, and assassinate without trial,  in search of three of theirs.

I belong to a religion that values life, not just OUR lives, but life.
Soon enough, the religious states "over there" will learn the value of persevering in a true democracy.  Let's leave them alone to figure it out themselves, and concentrate on securing our own borders here at home.*

And remember,
tenured law professors often have too much time on their hands and fantasize about other, less secure non-academic roads they've not taken.  If they haven't fought, have little to no "real life" career experience outside academia, and have shown zero interest in offering up their own little Julia's as fodder, then why would anyone listen to their "expertise" on military matters?

Entertainment, yes.
Smart about national security?  LOL.

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or,
*"If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them."

ADDED:  I'd like to see Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds put their money where their mouths are:  if you want to nation build like the missionaries, then start self-funding your missions like they do.  Use some of the salary surplus to help the Iraqi people, now that the American taxpayers are tapped out and some of us are plenty sickened by what our weaponry is doing in enemy hands, and all the dead lives are once again adding up.

Surely soon,
the numbers will have surpassed whatever massacres Saddam Hussein ever intentionally visited on his people?

FINALLY:
Since we're noW turning to Tehran to help extract us from this mess of our own making, why not offer this?

Just as Israel was able to secretly develop nuclear weapons (*wink, wink), why not get over the fact that Iran will choose to do the same?  I personally believe a balance of power will help settle the region.  Keep things better in check.

Speaking of checks, how long do you think Israel will remain America's only democratic ally in the Middle East once the American taxpayers end the "defense" subsidies?  I think it might be best to cut our losses sooner, rather than later...

Secure our own borders first, before we spend anymore enforcing Israel's artificially-imposed, God-endorsed ones.   Doing unto others, and all that.



PERHAPS:
Some of the elite law professors, whose verbal cheerleading promised only good things from America's military intervention, might even open up their own home to take in a refugee family, someone displaced from the conflict?  Then, they might learn something about citizens living in war zones, about true survival techniques (not just the fantasy book-reading stuff), and about doing the hard work it takes to help even one family in need.

Hint:  stock up on the books, tools, foodstuffs and expect to invest plenty of time teaching them to assimilate in new cultural ways:  guns really don't help all that much for remaking a nation's people, it turns out.  Christian missionaries who take on nation-building as a vocation know this;  the armchair warriors who are into just a short-term, summer-fling, boys-life adventure, apparently still don't.