Comments on: Yea, Yea, And What’s New? http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/ If it was easy, anyone could do it. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:49:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Dan Lyke http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/#comment-36543 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:40:19 +0000 http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/#comment-36543 I was recently talking with the mother of a friend who recounted her high school graduation during the second world war: The sole male graduate, who had been rejected from military service for physical reasons, was "booo"ed when he picked up his diploma, because he hadn't signed up and gone off to the front. That's the sort of support that Truman had. I think one of the problems with the current rhetoric is that the Republicans are using the extreme lefties to effectively block out debate from those of us who understand that we must be in Iraq for the long haul (looking to Germany and South Korea for examples), but are unhappy with specifics of the administration's handling of the war. I think that there are many of us who think that the military campaign has been very well managed, but that this war can only be won through public opinion and that's where the failures have been. Unfortunately, we're drowned out by those who'd group us with the "fund the Baathists!" wackos. I was recently talking with the mother of a friend who recounted her high school graduation during the second world war: The sole male graduate, who had been rejected from military service for physical reasons, was “booo”ed when he picked up his diploma, because he hadn’t signed up and gone off to the front. That’s the sort of support that Truman had.

I think one of the problems with the current rhetoric is that the Republicans are using the extreme lefties to effectively block out debate from those of us who understand that we must be in Iraq for the long haul (looking to Germany and South Korea for examples), but are unhappy with specifics of the administration’s handling of the war. I think that there are many of us who think that the military campaign has been very well managed, but that this war can only be won through public opinion and that’s where the failures have been.

Unfortunately, we’re drowned out by those who’d group us with the “fund the Baathists!” wackos.

]]> by: David C http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/#comment-36537 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:45:20 +0000 http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/#comment-36537 I think you're right - at some point (basically, the point where there's no longer any imminent danger of the Paranoid Left actually getting what they want), time spent arguing with them is just wasted. Unless and until something shakes them out of their mass psychosis and they start dealing with the real world as opposed to ParanoidFantasyLand. (And this, I fear, must come either from within their own selves or as the result of some new external shock to the system. We have ~4 years of empirical evidence that reasoned debate ain't gonna do the trick here.) But until that day comes, I've come to think Rick in *Casablanca* had it about right: Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would. I think you’re right - at some point (basically, the point where there’s no longer any imminent danger of the Paranoid Left actually getting what they want), time spent arguing with them is just wasted. Unless and until something shakes them out of their mass psychosis and they start dealing with the real world as opposed to ParanoidFantasyLand. (And this, I fear, must come either from within their own selves or as the result of some new external shock to the system. We have ~4 years of empirical evidence that reasoned debate ain’t gonna do the trick here.)

But until that day comes, I’ve come to think Rick in *Casablanca* had it about right:

Ugarte: You despise me, don’t you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

]]> by: Dave Carl http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/#comment-36535 Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:51:40 +0000 http://www.ncobrief.com/index.php/archives/yea-yea-and-whats-new/#comment-36535 You go Kevin! I do look at polls but definitely treat them as Gospel. They talk about margin of error. I say the margin of error for most of them is around 10% You go Kevin! I do look at polls but definitely treat them as Gospel. They talk about margin of error. I say the margin of error for most of them is around 10%

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