It hurts to say this.  Harry Reid may be wrong when he says we have lost the war, but he's very nearly right.  We are on the verge of losing it. Not for any of the reasons cited by war opponents. We are losing quite simply because the PR efforts of this administration, from the White House through the State Department and Pentagon all the way down to the bottom--the CIA I mean--are hopelessly inept.

Consider first President Bush, who consistently blows it.  The latest example is the statement he issued to accompany his veto of the Dems' "slow bleed" Supplemental Appropriations Bill.  He had a wonderful opportunity to really  lay into them.  He had a golden chance to hold them up to the public scorn and ridicule that they richly deserve.  Instead, he settled for a brief, smirking, namby-pamby statement to the effect that the Dem bill was a "recipe for chaos and confusion."  I have a message for you, Mr. President: The typical mouth-breathing couch potato [i.e. the typical American citizen] sees and knows nothing about the war we are in except chaos and confusion.  Whose fault is that, Mr. President? Yours.  You consistently fail to identify the real enemy, a worldwide resurgence of expansionist Islamic jihadism that began in Lebanon in the early 80's after three hundred years of somnolence. You have failed utterly the test of wartime leadership--to alert the public to the mortal danger that confronts them. Just yesterday, the Bush administration stumbled into stifling the last, best hope of mobilizing public support.

Bill Faith has the full story here. No need for me to elaborate. Read it and weep.

Contributed by 72nd TCS on May 2, 2007 at 07:30 PM in Current Affairs, Dem Perfidy, G W Bush, John "72nd TCS" Werntz, War? What war? | Permalink

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