Sarah Palin and her Republicans are playing into Islamist hands

[gulliver]

Why are Sarah Palin and her Republicans trying to destroy American security and set back our troops in the war in Afghanistan? Palin and her Republicans are making asses of themselves by insulting and maligning Muslims throughout the world. And for what?

Politics maybe?

If I were as dimwitted and knee-jerk vicious as Republican politicians have been of late, I would call this latest "GOP gift to the Taliban" treason. Instead, I'll settle for calling it just incredibly stupid. The Republicans and Palin are an embarrassment and a disaster for the country on the world stage. They just plainly don't know what they are doing.

Republicans, we don't need you and your spokesmodel screwing up U.S. national security. Shut up and stop setting fires. Your political careers should end over this. It should be the last straw if Americans have half a brain.

[tridim]

1. They never forget..

That 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to the Republican party.

They're still engaged in Bush's bullhorn moment, as they will be 20 years from now.

[rustydog]

2. Sarah, lady blah blah, and her cohorts aren't interested in

Iraq, Afghanistan or a Mosque at ground zero, they are like the kid pointing at everything they can think of because they do not want mom and dad to see what it is they broke, they want distraction to work for them.

If you can gather protesters against Afghanistan, Iraq, the exploding deficit the illegal effin' immigrants...You won't take the time to realize it was Republicans who controlled congress before 2006, it was Republicans who put industry insiders in charge of "industry Oversight" then cut enforcement budgets, weakened safety laws...weakened home loan requirements, allowed derivatives to explode, home loans approved based on no proof of income with adjustable rates, on, and on and on. Now they want back in the drivers seat after being placed in the child's seat in '08.

Misdirection works for them. especially when you still have an enormous conservative media at your beck (Pun fully intended) and call.

Their economy is GREAT! They are not job-hunting, they are part of the 2% whose roads, power grids, police and fire departments are financed with the taxes we pay. THEY do not pay taxes, they do not fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.. These are the fucking Welfare Queens in America, not the poor.

Don't debate these issues on their terms. Argue based on your perspective not theirs.

[gulliver]

4. I agree with pretty much everything you are saying.

They are very much misdirecting, distracting, and scapegoating to avoid the public remembering that Republicans caused the problems in the first place.

I don't think I was debating the issue on their terms though. I think you need to make arguments from your own perspective, from the perspective of the other side, and, especially, from the perspective of observers.

[deaniac21]

3. If we would just apologize to them, get out of Afghanistan and Iraq,

cease all support of Israel and help Iran financially, world strife would just go away.

[kestrel91316]

7. That's not what ANYONE is suggesting, and you know it. Don't be a

total ASSHAT.

[deaniac21]

10. That is what I am suggesting. They just hate our policies.

[Ramulux]

5. I hadnt thought of it like that

but you are absolutely right, I cant believe it hadnt occured to me before. They are basically playing into the stereotypical image that many muslims in the middle east have of Americans and it gives the extremists fodder to recruit easily mislead muslim youth. They are basically doing exactly what the terrorists say Americans do.

[kestrel91316]

6. ".......Shut up and stop setting fires......" pretty much sums it up.

[starroute]

8. They've never gotten over the end of the Cold War

They need an Enemy -- both to whip up their own base and to demonize anybody they can accuse of being soft on it.

That worked so well for them with communism -- they effectively destroyed any chance of a genuine political left in this country -- and they're looking for a repeat.

[gulliver]

9. I agree that is what they need. That's why we don't need them.

Palin and the current crop of Republicans are fouling up national security for political gain. We don't need them picking fights. In case they didn't notice (and whether one agrees with the wisdom of the Afghanistan War or not), our troops are trying to win the trust of the people of Afghanistan. Palin and the Republicans just made that job a lot harder. It doesn't take much imagination to translate that into added danger and casualties.

So Palin and her Republicans are playing at getting troops killed, all to try to help Republican politicians in November. It's contemptible.

[red red red]

11. I always wondered...

what country they were trying to help - I knew it wasn't America. They are too stupid to know that they are not only hurting us, but their children and their children's children, too. I would love to take Palin, Rush, Beck, McCain, Orange Man and all their cohorts and drop them in their beloved Iraq and let them mess up their government for a while. No, I take that back, Iraq may be straightening up after all this time and I wouldn't want to bomb them with their crap now - Sorry, Iraq!

[Blue Owl]

12. Critical Stinking in action

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