Christmas, 2005.
Just a few days shy of the arrival of the rotund man in red with a bellylaugh and a sleigh crammed with gifts, the national mood is slipping into despair according to the President's speech on Sunday evening. His comment referred to the growing attitude that America's war in Iraq had brought more problems than resolutions and he urged reflection on the concept that positive changes are underway, that we are winning the war. But who said the attitude was "despair"?
It isn't easy to accept the responsibility for mistakes made, regardless of whether you are a president or a waiter. Yet the nation is seeing more and more information which questions how and why we have taken the course of action in the current war. And America loves to second guess, to wonder and to imagine if we are on the best path and if not, then where do we go and how do we get there.
Yet in all the complaints and protests here in this nation, I had not encountered the idea of "despair" mentioned by the president.
So I wonder, who feels despair?
"I don't expect you to support everything I do, but tonight I have a request: Do not give in to despair, and do not give up on this fight for freedom."
Yet there is a difference between honest critics who recognize what is wrong, and defeatists who refuse to see that anything is right.
ReplyDeleteNow if we question him we are defeatists. If you don't like the war then you hate the troops too. Bush fuzzy logic has screwed too many to ever save face. I hope we can impeach the ass soon.