Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:59:20 PM
Thanks to commenter (and ex-blogger) Seixon for catching this. Not a
huge deal, but a nice reminder of what a cynical poseur The One is.
Here he is last night during the bracelet exchange, sonorously
declaring that no soldier dies in vain who follows the orders of his
commander-in-chief:
And here’s how poseur ended his 2002 anti-war speech, which remains to this day the biggest/only credential on his foreign-policy resume:
The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices
immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise
up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought
not?—?we will not?—?travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should
we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who
would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain.
How can their sacrifice be in vain if they’re following the orders
of the commander-in-chief? It can’t, according to potential
commander-in-chief Barack Obama, who’s already thinking about the heat
he’ll take from the cretins in his base if he follows through on a
build-up in Afghanistan and the casualty numbers start ticking up.
If Obama wanted to repudiate his 2002 statement in a coherent way, he
could have argued that there’s been so much improvement over the past
year in Iraq and so much damage done to Al Qaeda and the Sadrist
fundies that even if he thought the sacrifice was in vain before, he
doesn’t think so now. Granted, it’s asking a lot to ask him to nuke his
biggest/only credential, but why shouldn’t he acknowledge the progress
more robustly? After all, we owe the success of the surge to him and Biden, don’t we?