George Will Finally Agrees, With Me? With Poll.

I wrote this on my little blog. I'm just reposting it here, in the evening so as not to waste valuable day-time reading. For you kossacks, I'm really not telling you anything you don't know, and someone may have already diaried about this. I'm pretty much just yakking at myself here. However, feel free to comment. Thanks.

For those of you unfamiliar with George Will, he's a very popular "conservative" pundit/columnist, and generally has high following among Republicans. He's all over the place, in the papers and on TV. Supposedly he's brilliant. I personally find him a bit annoying, with his over-use of large words that few people know.

So here's what he had to say on August 15, 2006, regarding the recent British capture of terrorists suspected of wanting to blow up planes:

Cooperation between Pakistani and British law enforcement (the British draw upon useful experience combating IRA terrorism) has validated John Kerry's belief (as paraphrased by the New York Times Magazine of Oct. 10, 2004) that "many of the interdiction tactics that cripple drug lords, including governments working jointly to share intelligence, patrol borders and force banks to identify suspicious customers, can also be some of the most useful tools in the war on terror." In a candidates' debate in South Carolina (Jan. 29, 2004), Kerry said that although the war on terror will be "occasionally military," it is "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world."

Oh. Did he just quote with, and agree with, John Kerry? I'm squeezing my fists into my eyes here wondering if I'm going blind.

Here's what I wrote nearly a year ago (September 12, 2005, on my blog):

In the case of terrorism, a police-type response is called for. Yes, it's way more dramatic and impressive (and macho!) to declare a "War on Terror" but that was a huge mistake, partly because it inflates the importance of these cretins to treat them as if they were a nation unto themselves. It creates martyrs and helps recruit more terrorists to their side. It turns murderers and thieves into Bonne and Clyde. Terrorists are nothing more than world-wide thugs. Just capture them! You take them out with precision military strikes using intelligence agencies and razor sharp operations, the way you would any criminal but on a world-wide scale. You don't wildly bomb whole countries that are vaguely associated with the terrorists.

Alright, maybe George Will isn't saying exactly what I said, but I think the sentiments are the same. In both cases we're calling for law enforcement to do the job, not declarations of war.

Way to come around, George Will. Way to wake up. Too bad it's too late for 2600 or so dead American soldiers and another 20,000 or so wounded, not to mention many thousands if innocent Iraqi civilians. Crap, just how bright and brave is George Will that he finally came to the correct conclusion when Bush was at a 35% approval rating? I'm a know-nothing chemist and I was years ahead of this bozo.

I've not written here much lately because really I have little good to say about the state of affairs in America right now. I'm pretty much in the doldrums about it all. The Republicans have done so much damage to our country that it's not going to be fixed even if the Democrats take back everything by 2008. The devastation done by Republicans, and by an army of ignorant Americans, is overwhelming. I can't begin to list, or even summarize, the crimes perpetrated on Americans by these rich chickenhawk gutless liars. Somewhere deep down I have hope that America can regain something of what made it great, but right now Canada and Europe look very inviting.

I should find other things to write about for now.

There is a poll below. I ask you all to pick the first answer, to lighten my spirits. I have a daughter's future to think of.