Professor VD Hanson wrote a beauty this morning about the state of Iraq and all of those anti-war demonstrations:
"Anti-war passion cooled once war-critic Barack Obama was no longer a presidential candidate but became president -- and commander-in-chief. " (VDH)
Yes, where are all of those anti-war demonstrations?
Where are the marchers now that:
1) Pres BO is implementing the Bush-McCain plan in Iraq. In fact, anti-war BO is now deeply invested in success in Iraq.
2) Dropping bombs unilaterally in Pakistan without a congressional resolution authorizing an expansion of the war.
Where are the placards saying that Pakistan did not attack us on 9-11? or that BO's bombs are killing civilians?
Sandy Levinson has a point about the hypocrisy:
"One can only wonder what the response of the left would be if it were Bush (and, say, John Yoo) engaging in (and defending) the actions that seem central to the Obama Administration's policy in Pakistan (and Yemen and....)"
3) Pres BO has not attracted other allies to fight in Afghanistan. In fact, it will soon be the US and the UK because Canada is leaving next year.
What happened to all of that stuff that our allies did not fight in Afghanistan because they didn't like Bush?
4) Pres BO is keeping in place all of the anti-terror policies such as wiretapping and protecting executive privileges. (It turns out that VP Cheney was right and Pres BO is the one carrying out the plan!)
5) No one is closing GITMO! I guess that it was easier to close GITMO when you didn't have to explain how you were going to close it!
The left is out of the anti-war business these days, specially now that their guy is the one dropping bombs, holding terrorists indefinitely without a trial and wiretapping phones.
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