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D’JEver Notice? IIWednesday, May 14th, 2008
The graphic you see to the left has become a widely-recognized and caustic symbol of right-wing hubris. It is our President giving an address to the troops on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 — at which time many of the men and women listed as troop casualties in the operations, were still alive. The point is, therefore, that the people we call “conservatives” have a proclivity for declaring victory when victory has not yet been realized, and may never be realized.
The dirty little secret is, though, that on May 1 Saddam Hussein’s regime had been overthrown. The mission had been accomplished; that’s just a fact.
Furthermore, a lot of the folks who make a point of flashing this graphic around, or making their petty, bickering references to it, I notice are oftentimes the very same folks who point to strange “accomplishments” in foreign policy — usually with regard to former President Jimmy Carter. And, almost always, with regard to some signature on a document Carter has acquired from those whose signatures don’t really seem to be worth very much. On treaties that have since been broken outright, had unforeseen ancillary consequences in direct contradiction to the benefits they were supposed to bring, or failed entirely. The U.S.-North Korean Pact of 1994. The Oslo accords of 1993. The Camp David accords of 1978.
The propaganda in which we are awash, therefore, is supposed to inform us that actions don’t “accomplish” anything and talking is supposed to “accomplish” everything. For the propaganda to work, we have to believe it over our lyin’ eyes. North Korea is making weapons. And Saddam Hussein is dead and cold in the ground.
The same people are moving the goalposts around in both directions.
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Yea, but…but there are signatures on pieces of paper, there were handshakes and smiles. Damn it Morgan, there was dialogue! People felt good about those things and that’s what REALLY matters, people felt GOOD!
You and you “accomplishments”, your just trying to make things look bad for the Dems. Shame on you.
- tim | May 14, 2008 @ 1:33 pm