Tuesday, March 01, 2005

The Left Must Deny Reagan & Bush Their Successes In Order To Make Their Ideology Relevant

I love watching the liberals squirm when forced to address issues and events that... well... plainly disagree with their entire ideology. Believing George W. Bush is a merciless warmongering idiot does not jibe with the FACT that The Bush Doctrine is responsible for at least 2 elections in regions that either never have or have not in a long time experienced them. With Georgia and the Ukraine now firmly separated from their Communist style governments, the Palestinians and Israel on their way to a plan for peace and Lebanon soon to be free from Syrian occupation, guys like Ed Kilgore of The Talking Points Memo are finding less and less to support their blame America, Bush is an idiot ideology.

Here is Ed Kilgore explaining how Ronald Reagan was not responsible for the fall of the Soviet Empire just as George W. Bush has not dealt a crippling blow to tyranny and despotism:

This is the kind of thinking, of course, that has convinced God knows how many people that Ronald Reagan personally won the Cold War. It's the old post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) logical fallacy. This is a president and an administration that chronically refuse to accept responsibility for the bad things that have happened on their watch--even things like the insurgency in Iraq that are directly attributable to its policies. Barring any specific evidence (provided, say, by Lebanese pro-democracy leaders)that Bush had anything in particular to do with Syria's setbacks in Lebanon, I see no particular reason to high-five him for being in office when they happened.

So it is merely coincidence that Communism fell while Reagan was in office as Democracy in the Middle East has nothing to do with the Bush Doctrine. Poor liberals. They must DENY DENY DENY just to make themselves feel like they have any relevancy left at all.



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