Rand Report Discredits Bush, Leaves McCain Without a Campaign

[Phred42]

Ok, so one more take on that Rand Corp Report. This one is from eCowboy who usually manages to nail it. I think he nailed it again here.

Rand Report Utterly Discredits Bush, Leaves McCain Without a Campaign
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/08/rand-report-utterly-discredits-bush.html

A new report by the conservative Rand Corporation calls the so-called 'War on Terrorism' fundamentally flawed, doomed to failure. The study pulls the rug from under John McCain who had promised not just more of the same old horse dung but perhaps another one hundred, another '10,000 years' of war against Iraq!

Saying that the US should 're-think' the so-called 'war on terrorism', the report claims that Bush failed to meet his own stated objectives. It was, the report concludes, the wrong approach to begin with.

Rand stopped short of repeating my charge: the 'war on terror' was just a cover for Bush's assumption of dictatorial powers which he accomplished with the Patriot Act and numerous 'signing statements', in effect, his de facto 'rule by decree'.
All terrorist groups eventually end. But how do they end? Answers to this question have enormous implications for dealing with al Qa'ida and suggest fundamentally rethinking post–September 11 US counter terrorism strategy.

The evidence since 1968 indicates that most groups have not ended due to military pressure but because (1) they joined the political process or (2) local police and intelligence agencies arrested or killed key members and that few groups achieved victory within this timeframe.

[calimary]

1. What a disgrace.

What an awful time this has been.

Just freakin' AWFUL.

My friends keep talking about that "inevitable" time when the pendulum swings back. I'm doubtful it'll happen in my lifetime. The trend toward holding ANY of these bastards accountable is nearly nonexistent. Not a good precedent for sending any messages that this is bad stuff, you shouldn't do it, there'll be hell to pay because it's illegal, you'll face consequences - none of that is in play here. They've just completely stacked the deck.

I LONG to see some of these schmucks sent to prison for what they've done. And thanks to our quisling Dems and the GOP's media accomplices, it will likely never happen.

Just makes me want to scream.

[bullimiami]

2. i think those waging this military "war on terror" know that they are making it worse.

war is their domain, their cash cow. more war is their goal.
the war creates more enemies which requires more resources and more funding to fight which increases the power and wealth of those waging it.

it is such with the war on crime, the war on drugs, the war on terrorism...

the goal has never been to win any of the battles thus each failure is actually a victory.

[Phred42]

3. They are making it better for them - they are Sociopaths

The rest of it, consequences etc, is not even on their radar

If WE are to survive we must recognize this and act on it, respond to it, accordingly.

You cannot rationalize or 'nice' this personality type. All it understands is that Might is Right.

[samsingh]

4. again, ignored by the msm

[LVjinx]

5. If McCain's campaign is gone, who do you think R's will nominate at their convention?

[Phred42]

6. that's a point I have een making here for some ti,me

and getting beat up for it too :)

Obama won't be running against McCain in November.