{"id":242,"date":"2003-11-09T08:24:54","date_gmt":"2003-11-09T08:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:24","slug":"testing_bushs_iron_butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Testing Bush’s Iron Butt"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Yglesias, Reynolds, and I agree, is the world in danger? I sure hope not…<\/p>\n

Matthew Yglesias (who links approvingly<\/a> to my post on the ebbing of downballot Democrats, and who wrote a thoughtful and polite email concerning our recent contremps) has a post<\/a> in which he points to a column by Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan<\/a>, and links it to the following theory:<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, the president is trying to cover his right flank with tough talk (i.e., the National Endowment for Democracy speech) while, in fact, withdrawing US troops from Iraq. Meanwhile, Democrats who do not agree with this strategy are being unfairly castigated as cut-and-runners.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now this is my personal nightmare – one of the ones where you’re in the room, invisible and unhearable as something horrible goes down.<\/p>\n

Instapundit shares my concern<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[Megan McArdle<\/a>] But there are actually rumors that the White House is contemplating accelerating our departure, which seems lunatic to even discuss when the country doesn’t appear to have a functioning anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Instapundit] I hope those rumors are false. Because if the White House — by which, in this case, I mean George W. Bush — decides to drop the ball on this, I’ll probably vote Democratic, even if Kucinich is the nominee. A half-hearted war is the very, very worst kind. I think that Bush understands that. He’d better.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look, for me it’s simple. I’m willing to overlook a lot of what I don’t like about the Bush Administration because I believe that he’s the only candidate whom I believe (today) is resolute about this whole war thing.<\/p>\n

The second it looks like he’s planning to ‘declare victory and leave<\/i>,’ I can promise you that Atrios<\/a> will look like Karl Rove in comparison to me.<\/p>\n

That’s because I’m convinced that decision leads almost certainly to nukes in the U.S. and then the real possibility of a genocidal war abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Yglesias, Reynolds, and I agree, is the world in danger? I sure hope not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}