There's been a spate of conservative talking-heads wagging their pointy little fingers at every prominant Democrat they can think of, accusing them of "emboldening" someone or other.
Is this just one more mind-numbing effort to suppress dissent? Are these talking-heads trying to make Democrats responsible for the choices of America's enemies or potential enemies (If you Dems didn't 'embolden' them, they would never have done this)?
What's the rationalization behind all this tsk-tsking over "emboldening"?
2007-02-12 03:32:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Right. We wouldn't want the Iraqis to start parroting America's leaders.
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
2007-02-12 03:46:34 · update #1
Yea. I hate emboldening people by telling the truth. I wonder where those "pointy fingers" were when the neos were emboldening with their slander against Clinton. Strange.
2007-02-12 03:38:15 · answer #1 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
what you have to say is a bunch of twaddle, and if you listened to what the democrats say and do, instead of just going with the flow of your party, then you could see that they do their share of emboldening the terrorist, they slander the presidents war, and speak out against our military on a daily basis, The far left is nothing but harmful to the security of this country, Look a San Francisco, they want to kick the military programs out of the schools and colleges there, this is not a good thing it is a horrible thing. So yes in a round about way the Democrats are enabling the terrorist to win their fight, and seeing that the democrats have taken power of the house and senate, the terrorist are probably plenty pleased, knowing they have an open door when Bush leaves office.
2007-02-12 12:55:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Come here and see...
The Dems have already said that they will end this war when they get in office (basically). That tells our enemy that they have won. All they have to do is keep the pressure up to make it look good when we "retreat". It's obvious.
The other side to this is the fact that Dems continue to tell us (the soldiers) that we have failed. All I hear from the Dems is that we are failures in Iraq and that there is no hope.
Do you know what it's like to fight while being told you're a failure? We are doing good things, here. We are making a difference, but if you listen to the media or the Democrats you would think that the sky is falling and that's not the case at all.
The fact is, Democrats are emboldening the enemy. Period.
2007-02-12 03:43:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Gen Wesley Clark was asked if the debate about the war emboldened the enemy, and he said it did not. The Dems were elected on the belief that we need a new direction in Iraq.
2007-02-12 03:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
you know the name. let play the american blame game.
if you want to know who's to blame just look in the mirror. that go's for all of us.
and two years of political blame gaming campaigning will get us how close to resolutions?
Time to wake up Republicans and democrats are making a killing off this war. it's not going to stop until people stop blaming and start taming this corrupt beast we call US government.
both sides are spewing up BS and the people just eat it up, while they laugh at us all the way to the bank.
2007-02-12 03:42:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i don't care who dissents. when we're at war, however, we have to think about our national interest. it is in no way in our national interest to have terrorists overseas parroting the things our own leaders say. the terrorists know that if they wait long enough, Bush will be forced by his own country to give up and leave. you don't think that's emboldening? if you can't see it, no amount of explaining will get this through to you. the terrorist leaders KNOW THEY CAN COUNT ON YOU. YOU HAVE SHOWN THEM THAT. they know it. nothing to do now but try to kill them first before we have to give it up. cause if we leave them alive, they will be back. and they will be more savage than ever before, because YOU WILL HAVE SHOWN THEM THAT IT WORKS.
ETA: obviously, when i said they were parroting what our leaders say, i am referring to the TERRORISTS, not the Iraqi government. you keep on thinking there's no terrorists. you'll find out, eventually, when we pull out and they follow us home.
2007-02-12 03:39:09 · answer #6 · answered by political junkie 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
quitting is an effective aspect once you've made a careful suggested properly concept out decision. quitting is a nasty aspect once you've made a rash spur of the instantaneous emotional decision quite.
2016-12-04 02:11:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is just part of the blame shift game.
It reminds me of the carnival shell game.
No matter how much you pay exact attention and know where the object is (in this case it is blame) deceitful slight of hand tricks shift the blame where it was not supposed to be.
2007-02-12 03:38:41 · answer #8 · answered by sprcpt 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No matter how you may disapprove, the words we all say carry a certain amount of weight. If you happen to be a politician, then your words have the ability to cause chaos.
Since that is true, there needs to be something place to shut those mouths. Putting words in the spotlight is one way to focus the attention on paying attention.
2007-02-12 03:38:35 · answer #9 · answered by kathy059 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It all the republican have going for them. They figure if they can make the dems look like bad guys then people wont vote for them. It's sad that there is a percent of the US people who fall for it.
2007-02-12 03:37:16 · answer #10 · answered by sydb1967 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋