Comments on: Can It Get Any Lower? Oh, There’s Jarvis http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/06/20/can-it-get-any-lower-oh-theres-jarvis/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Quaker in a Basement http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/06/20/can-it-get-any-lower-oh-theres-jarvis/#comment-102 Quaker in a Basement Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:06:18 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=34#comment-102 Oh, man. What a mess. Jarvis complains that Bush did a bad job of selling the war both before and after the fact. Before the war, Jarvis says Bush should have cited: a) the need to clean up Daddy's mess and remove a tyrant b) the need to establish a foothold for democracy in the middle East c) and fight the terrorists over there instead of over here. Problem is, it's nearly impossible to accomplish all three at once. How do you provide a foothold for democracy when you're trying to draw terrorists from all over the middle East into that same place? Jarvis conveniently forgets that the runup to the invasion of Iraq came hard on the heels of 9-11. Bush couldn't very well sell the invasion by telling the American public: "Never mind Osama. We're going to pursue my crackpot colleagues vague ambitions for global hegemony." Yeah, that would have gone over. Big! [eyeroll] Oh, man. What a mess. Jarvis complains that Bush did a bad job of selling the war both before and after the fact.

Before the war, Jarvis says Bush should have cited:
a) the need to clean up Daddy’s mess and remove a tyrant
b) the need to establish a foothold for democracy in the middle East
c) and fight the terrorists over there instead of over here.

Problem is, it’s nearly impossible to accomplish all three at once. How do you provide a foothold for democracy when you’re trying to draw terrorists from all over the middle East into that same place?

Jarvis conveniently forgets that the runup to the invasion of Iraq came hard on the heels of 9-11. Bush couldn’t very well sell the invasion by telling the American public: “Never mind Osama. We’re going to pursue my crackpot colleagues vague ambitions for global hegemony.”

Yeah, that would have gone over. Big! [eyeroll]

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