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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 ::

Stating the Obvious

BuzzMachine is suprised at the "minor dustup" over Bush's statement that the war on terror is unwinable--of course it's 'unwinable'. Here's Jarvis' take:

"In all fairness to Bush, he's right and it's right to say so: We will never be able to rest from this war. We will be on guard always. We can work not only to make sure the rest of the world rejects these evil slime, we can also tear apart their nests and replace them with lands of freedom and democracy. But these slime are the cockroaches of humankind. They will hide and they will morph. We will prevail. We will survive. We will succeed. But we won't "win" against every terrorist and we should not fool ourselves to think that that day at the surrender table will ever come."

When the Democratic team seizes on such a remark and attempts to leverage it into political hay it offends because every rational person knows, as Jarvis points out, 'winning' this war isn't possible. By implying that it is, Kerry and Edwards look foolish, grasping and insincere.

Unfortunately, Bush's plain-spokeness is routinely and intentionally misconstrued by his detractors and their willing accomplices in the press and the gullible continue to fall for it.

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