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Blurred Vision

“Ideological struggles take time,” he said, explaining the turmoil in Iraq and elsewhere. He said the events of weeks or months were just a nanosecond compared with the long course of this conflict. He was passionate on the need for patience and steadfastness. He talked about “inviolate” principles written upon his heart: “People want you […]

“Ideological struggles take time,” he said, explaining the turmoil in Iraq and elsewhere. He said the events of weeks or months were just a nanosecond compared with the long course of this conflict. He was passionate on the need for patience and steadfastness. He talked about “inviolate” principles written upon his heart: “People want you to change. It’s tactics that shift, but the strategic vision has not, and will not, shift.” ~David Brooks, The New York Times

“Ideological struggles take time”–why does the President keep using this phrase “ideological struggle,” who introduced him to this Marxist-Leninist claptrap and when will a lot of people start telling him that this rhetoric is profoundly creepy?  

Weeks and months are a “nanosecond” in the conflict–does that mean that we are looking at billions of months of conflict?  That’s rather longer than most other people are expecting.

Did Mr. Bush really say that an unchanging strategic vision is one of the “inviolate” principles written upon his heart?  Is there medication that Mr. Bush needs to be taking that he has not been?  Last, if the strategic vision “will not shift,” could he at least tell us what that strategic vision is (assuming it would not violate his heart-inscribed principles to divulge such information)?

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