Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Republicans don't want bin Laden to be captured!

After reading this Captain's Quarters post (I've been picking on him a lot recently), see if you draw the only logical conclusion that I drew:

[here's what Sen. Obama said]
There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will.

[here's Morrissey's response]
Frankly, the only idea worse than invading Iran is invading Pakistan. One might expect a serious presidential candidate to avoid looking like an idiot while provoking an ally that still helps more than he hurts in that region. Obama seems determined to prove himself unserious.
Can there be any other conclusion than he doesn't want the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 to be brought to justice? Obama says "find bin Laden" and Morrissey says "that's a bad idea"... it doesn't get any more straightforward.

Except for one thing: I'd be a complete dumbass for making that conclusion, since Morrissey's criticisms run deeper than that. Actually, I'm doing the exact same thing that Morrissey is doing with Obama. Morrissey is making the argument that Obama wants to "invade Pakistan", similarly to the way we invaded Iraq, except that it's NOT what Obama is saying at all. Obama is saying that we should send troops into the mountains where bin Laden and his crew are holed-up, and bring them in. It's a point Morrissey is either willfully or stupidly missing.

Now that THAT'S cleared up: Obama's idea is horrible.

[update]: Another Republican wants bin Laden to be free.

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