Romney Attacks Huckabee for Attacking Bush

Yay!!! Huckabee did only one Republican candidate has done before. He criticized Bush's "bunker mentality" with regard to the GWOT. Not that it takes much courage to point out that wrong are wrong...

He was swiftly attacked by Romney. This is no surprise. When it comes to foreign policy there one and only one candidate who truly understands the GWOT. That is Ron Paul. Unfortunately, his extreme libertarianism makes him seem insane. Yes, I too think his desire to reduce the US government to only the enumerated powers of the Constitution is too much--but that doesn't mean he can't properly analyze the American role in the modern world system and why it causes the GWOT. In fact, he is the only one who can.

I heard Romney on C-SPAN telling his listeners a myth from the annals of American Exceptionalism. He said that the United States is the only country to sacrifice the blood of its children in faraway lands and not take land, "the only thing that's worth something," in return. In fact, the United States didn't take land because we are in a new economic system. Instead of taking land and trying to control it, we "hire" the current or a next group of leaders who will make sure that laws are passed that allow American interests to control their resources. Saudi Arabia should be the most heavenly place on earth given it's vast mineral wealth--instead it sends most of its oil over to the US where we waste driving alone 10 miles to work everyday (busted). Then, they make sure that the proceeds of the sales are invested into the US economy. The first Gulf War was not about oil--Saddam would love to sell it on the world market--it was about the ownership of the Bank of Kuwait. Most Americans don't know how this works, so when 19 hijackers flew planes into the WTC, Pentagon, and (failure) the Capitol or White House, the first question on most American's minds was "why do they hate us?" Any American who didn't already know why they hate us is 100% unqualified to applaud when Rudy Guiliani slaps down Ron Paul for telling the truth about the GWOT. Yet, all the knuckle-dragging yokels in the audience did applaud Rudy for smaking Ron Paul for telling the truth.

Look, I know that 9/11 stung. It hurt me, too. But if you are incapable of detaching yourself emotionally and realizing that the attackers had legitimate grievances against the United States and its client states, then you really aren't qualified to make rational decisions in the voting booth that will improve the world. If you are not capable of that detachment, then you are a pawn in the hands of the demagogues who will lead the world in the wrong direction. And, sadly, the only one not demagoguing this issue in both the GOP and Dem Party is Ron Paul. I'm hoping that the Dems will come around once in the White House. I'm not counting on it for the GOP.

Anyway, when Huckabee became the second GOP candidate to dare to speak the truth over this emotional issue, Romney attacked him. Why? Romney has the best judgement of all the candidates. Why attack Huckabee for a moment of correctness? I guess because he knows that the GOP is thoroughly incapable of acknowledging the effect of years of our American foreign policy. Like a parent protects their criminal children when the police accuse them of wrongdoing, the GOP protects the USA against true and accurate charges of behaviors that are unethical, illegal, immoral, and sinful. I wish the average American would wake up to the fact that we expect the leaders of these countries to repress their citizens, that we committed genocide against the native Americans, that the Stars & Bars represent a dispicable chapter from our racist past, that we stole Texas and California fom Mexico (and invaded in 1848 and "paid" them for it--like a rapist throwing a few $20's on his shattered victim as if that turns her from a rape victim to a guilty whore.) But no--instead when those capable of intellectual detachment point these facts out, we are called "Blame America First"-ers by the anti-intellectual crowd.

In closing I leave you with a quote form Arch-Conservative Irving Kristol--I wish it weren't true but it is, and it explains why Dr. Ron Paul got booed by the GOP base and why Rudy's attack on him was cheered, and why Romney's attack on Huckabee will succeed: "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work."

When it comes to foreigh policy, Ron Paul is talking in the truths of highly educated adults and Romney and Rudy are talking in the truths for children. Sad.