Sunday, August 27, 2006

Clift: Uninformed or Malicious?

On this weekend's installment of The McLaughlin Group, Eleanor Clift managed to bash President Bush, the work of our troops, and the Iraqi people in one snippy little rant.

Clift said:


"The administration's strategy, as best as I can determine it, is to put this unity government in place and to train the Iraqis to take over so Americans can leave."

That's a true statement. Bush has been saying that for three years now. Everyone should be capable of grasping it.

That's what makes Clift's feigned effort to "determine" the administration's goals so annoying.

As she continues, Clift proceeds to slam the President and the troops and the Iraqis with this Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, loony Lefty-style swipe:

"We appear to be training the Iraqis to go back into their sectarian communities and kill each other.

She concludes:


"To just say stay the course,... that's not a strategy."

It's nothing new for Clift to complain that the Bush administration has a failed strategy for Iraq, or that it lacks one altogether; but for her to assert that our troops seem to be training the Iraqis to kill each other is really going over the line.

The mission of American troops is not to train Iraqis so they can return to their communities and use their new skills to kill each other.

How utterly crass!

Is Clift so uninformed or is she that malicious?

Like many on the Left, Clift operates under that condescending assumption that the Iraqi people, as a whole, have no real interest in democracy and couldn't succeed in maintaining a democratic society even if they were interested.

If all the violence in Iraq would stop tomorrow and the unity government would function smoothly, I suspect that libs like Clift would still find a way to declare the mission in Iraq a failure.

They are so invested in Iraq being considered Bush's Vietnam that they will settle for nothing less than complete and unconditional defeat for the United States.




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