From Eric Dondero: A conservative blog out of Wisconsin had the opportunity to interview libertarian Republican for US Senate Ron Johnson. The Republican Senate candidate challenging Russ Feingold is heavily backed by fiscal conservative stalwart Sen. Jim DeMint.
George Will in a syndicated column last month called Johnson an a hardline capitalist and Ayn Rand devotee: "the idea of running for office never crossed Ron Johnson's mind. He was, however, dry tinder -- he calls Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" his "foundational book." His main focus as a candidate has been the country's enormous debt and cutting the tax burden for Americans, and small business. But now Johnson's giving indications on his foreign policy beliefs, as well. They are indeed views that clash with those of ultra-leftist "Moveon.org" backed Russ Feingold.
LettersinaBottle blog:
I’m very concerned about President Obama, the way he even announced the strategy, the fact that he announces the surge and the next sentence after that, he says, “Oh, by the way, we’re going to pull out in 16 months.” To me, the Taliban strategy is to surge 16 months and a day. And particularly in a conflict like Afghanistan, where we need the villagers to feel confident that, you know, whoever – that we’re going to be there for victory and that we’re committed to that. Because let’s face it, we’ve got the Taliban that’ll happily move into those villages and, you know, enact some retribution on anybody that sided with the other side. So, my concern is that President Obama has set us up for failure, quite honestly; and that’s not what you do when you’re going to commit our fine young men and women into battle. So, you know, highly concerned about his particular strategy.
I would like to achieve victory in Afghanistan. I mean, I’d like to finish off the job; I mean, I’d like to be able to say that, you know, we’ve cleaned up another nest of terrorists, quite honestly. But I’m just, again, very concerned about the direction of, you know, this policy under this president. The only thing that kind of keeps me supportive of it is the fact that we have David Petraeus. Which, by the way, Russ Feingold was one of only twenty Senators that refused to condemn the ad by Moveon.org that called him “David Betray-us.” I don’t think that’s a real way – a real shining moment in Senator Feingold’s voting record, quite honestly.
4 comments:
Opposing "victory in Afghanistan" is pretty much the equivalent of opposing "leprechauns in the country club."
Why obsess over someone's support for or opposition to something which does not exist, never has existed, and will never exist anywhere other than in the fever dreams of lunatics?
Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen came home in past Wars to ticker tape parades, girls galore, and all the booze they could drink. They were honored in their hometowns, had statues erected to them, even. At the very least were frequent guest speakers at the Rotary, Lions Club, ect... And they got the prettiest gals in town.
Our Veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars deserve no less.
They deserve the label VICTOR for the rest of their lives, and on their gravestones.
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They deserve the label VICTOR for the rest of their lives, and on their gravestones. - Eric
What does victory in Afghanistan look like??? you cannot subjugate that country there will always be terrorist cells. the best you could hope for is flyover bombing missions from here to eternity. If it's securing our energy interests then it's guarding the pipeline till we move on to the next energy source. What's that 50 years away or more???
There is no victory in Afghanistan. What you see now is what your going to get.
Take all the flag waving and rah rah out of the equation. War is a messy business and as long as we need the black gold the mess will stain the middle east.
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