. "Democrats In War And Peace: Hillary vs Dodd"@en . . . . . . . "by user Don Pesci When a politician begins a statement this way \u2013 \u201CDon\u2019t misunderstand me, I like spinach\u2019\u2019 \u2013 you can be certain he deplores spinach. If the politician is a progressive, the same rule holds true when the \u201Cspinach\u201D is \u201Csoldiers in Iraq busily undermining the Democrat congressional effort to subvert the war on terror and make the White House safe for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards or Dennis Kucinich or Chris Dodd, who has more experience than the other Democrat presidential candidates in subverting wars.\u201D Step 1 -- Identify belligerents. __NOEDITSECTION__"@en . . "by user Don Pesci When a politician begins a statement this way \u2013 \u201CDon\u2019t misunderstand me, I like spinach\u2019\u2019 \u2013 you can be certain he deplores spinach. If the politician is a progressive, the same rule holds true when the \u201Cspinach\u201D is \u201Csoldiers in Iraq busily undermining the Democrat congressional effort to subvert the war on terror and make the White House safe for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or John Edwards or Dennis Kucinich or Chris Dodd, who has more experience than the other Democrat presidential candidates in subverting wars.\u201D It is said that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is much stiffer on the stump than her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton \u2013 soon to be, God willing, the future president\u2019s First Partner. And this is true. Hillary is more formal than Bill, more cautious, less certain that \u2013whatever the rhetorical thicket she may wander into \u2013 she possesses the wit, charm, grace and verbal agility to escape the briars that will tear her tender flesh. She is a passable but not an accomplished liar. Her record of tub thumping lies is spotty, despite assurances from ex-Clintonite columnist Dick Morris, who appears to be nurturing a private grudge against the Clintons, that Hillary is the devil\u2019s behind. Besides all this, Hillary has a past to recon with -- which includes Bill\u2019s past, which includes, in the matter of terrorism, a certain fantasy or narrative that must at all costs be preserved. The narrative goes something like this: As president, Bill hated terrorists and did all he could to send Osama binLadin to the clinker, which at the time was located somewhere other than Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His failure to snuff out binLadin \u2013 or, better still, to bring him to trial in a court presided over by Sen. Chris Dodd, son of Nuremberg prosecutor Tom Dodd \u2013 was not successful; but he tried \u2013 very, very, very hard. Bill had better success in far off Yugoslavia. Unlike the hapless President Bush, Clinton prosecuted the war against Hitler wannabe Slobodan Milosevic in the old tried and true fashion. He identified the belligerents: Christian Serbs on the one hand and Islamic Kosovars on the other and threw in his lot with the Islamisists. Now this is the way the United States has won all its wars, with the exception of Vietnam and, if the Democrat dominated US Congress has its way, possibly the Iraq War: Step 1 -- Identify belligerents. Step 2 -- Choose to ally yourself with the prospective winners. Just flip a coin if you must, ever mindful of Henry Kissinger\u2019s remark during the seemingly endless diplomatic negotiations (Listen up, Dodd!) between the Viet Cong, the South Vietnamese and the US during the late lost Vietnam War that he wished \u201Cboth sides could lose.\u201D Step 3 -- By diplomatic means, persuade faithless, quivering, cowardly allies to lend their support. It\u2019s a good idea to give them something. Dodd\u2019s brother, a diplomat, might have been a helpful negotiator here. Step 4 \u2013 Having identified the side you wish to win, kill all the belligerents on the other side. This is very important; your success will depend upon it. Clinton, the hero of Kosovo, followed all these steps religiously and, after some carpet bombing, brought peace in our day to Yugoslavia, securing the gratitude of Dodd, among other warmongering Democrats. And a joy it was, as the poet says, to be alive on that day: The past, the more fiction it has in it, must be preserved at all costs. Hillary senses this deep in her bones. The First Husband must not be diminished. \u201CSome presidential aides and friends are describing Kosovo in Churchillian tones,\u201D The Washington Post reported in the final days of the carpet bombing, \u201C as Clinton\u2019s \u2018finest hour\u2026 what Clinton believes were the unambiguously moral motives for NATO\u2019s intervention represented a chance to soothe regrets harbored in Clinton\u2019s own conscience.\u201D The paper quoted a friend as saying \u201Cthat Clinton had at times lamented that the generation before him was able to serve in a war with a plainly noble purpose, and he feels \u2018almost cheated\u2019 that \u2018when it was his turn he didn\u2019t have the chance to be part of a moral cause.\u2019\u201D As for Bush \u2013 well, that is another matter. Clearly, the present duffer does not belong to the brave band of Democrat brothers vying for the presidency, and the elevation of Democrat winners depends on the devaluation of Republican losers. If some Democrat presidential aspirants appear to be sympathetic towards the most resourceful enemies the United States has confronted since Aldolf and his crew prowled the earth attempting to rid it of pestiferous Jews, that is because the enemy of my enemy is necessarily my friend, certainly not because Democrats wish to aid terrorists in once again blowing up New York City. Democrats are betting that the American voting public is savvy enough to grasp this subtlety. The danger is they won't. Political campaigns are not receptive to subtleties. __NOEDITSECTION__ From The Opinion Wiki, a Wikia wiki. From The Opinion Wiki, a Wikia wiki."@en . . . . . .