Universal Myopia
My letter to the Wall Street Journal from late last week; I do not expect it to get published. My objective was more to blind-copy the folks I chose to blind-copy.
Editor,
Afghanistan!
Good grief, you published a story on May 13, 2010, “Voters Shifting to GOP, Poll Finds (see link below)”, and you included this asinine quote from a prominent pollster, “A lot has happened but the basic dynamic of the 2010 elections seems almost set in concrete.”
You compounded your institutional ignorance by publishing, on the same day, Karl Rove’s myopic, “How Badly Will the Democrats Do? (see link below)”, an assessment of Congressional Democratic losses coming this November.
One thousand, eight hundred and forty (1,840) words between the two pieces and not one of the words is “Afghanistan”? Are you kidding us?
President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates are planning to clear Kandahar of Taliban this summer. Both are warning of significant US casualties. Sure, “a lot has happened” but something much more relevant is going to happen and what is going to happen can definitely be game-changing if there is objective military success.
Of course, because of Obama’s media ban on returning KIA, if there are significant US casualties, none of the KIA returning will be seen by the American public so maybe justification for the ignorance. But notably, unlike the Party over Country Democrats who demagogued US troop deaths in the run-up to the 2008 elections, I, like all Republicans, will be rooting for President Obama, SecDef Gates, and our troops in Kandahar.
Finally, I’m not going to mention Obama missing Bush's first withdrawal date for our troops in Iraq or Kagan’s confirmation hearings, also relevant, prospective topics ignored by the poll article and Rove, because that would feel like I’m piling-on. (End of letter to the WSJ.)
Poll:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704247904575240812672173820.html?mod=rss_com_mostcommentart
Rove:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703339304575240371622364714.html?mod=rss_Today
Also, for those following along, I know the NHL like I know the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
My letter to the Wall Street Journal from late last week; I do not expect it to get published. My objective was more to blind-copy the folks I chose to blind-copy.
Editor,
Afghanistan!
Good grief, you published a story on May 13, 2010, “Voters Shifting to GOP, Poll Finds (see link below)”, and you included this asinine quote from a prominent pollster, “A lot has happened but the basic dynamic of the 2010 elections seems almost set in concrete.”
You compounded your institutional ignorance by publishing, on the same day, Karl Rove’s myopic, “How Badly Will the Democrats Do? (see link below)”, an assessment of Congressional Democratic losses coming this November.
One thousand, eight hundred and forty (1,840) words between the two pieces and not one of the words is “Afghanistan”? Are you kidding us?
President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates are planning to clear Kandahar of Taliban this summer. Both are warning of significant US casualties. Sure, “a lot has happened” but something much more relevant is going to happen and what is going to happen can definitely be game-changing if there is objective military success.
Of course, because of Obama’s media ban on returning KIA, if there are significant US casualties, none of the KIA returning will be seen by the American public so maybe justification for the ignorance. But notably, unlike the Party over Country Democrats who demagogued US troop deaths in the run-up to the 2008 elections, I, like all Republicans, will be rooting for President Obama, SecDef Gates, and our troops in Kandahar.
Finally, I’m not going to mention Obama missing Bush's first withdrawal date for our troops in Iraq or Kagan’s confirmation hearings, also relevant, prospective topics ignored by the poll article and Rove, because that would feel like I’m piling-on. (End of letter to the WSJ.)
Poll:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704247904575240812672173820.html?mod=rss_com_mostcommentart
Rove:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703339304575240371622364714.html?mod=rss_Today
Also, for those following along, I know the NHL like I know the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.
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