Jul 21 2008
The Iraq-Pakistan border
Can you just imagine the screaming and outrage from the right had it been Barack Obama showing this level of ignorance? It seems to be alright, though, when it comes from Senior Citizen McCain.
See also: “McCain shows his expertise on foreign policy.” The old codger also believes that Czechoslovakia still exists.
7 Responses to “The Iraq-Pakistan border”
Actually, I have come across a couple conservative blogs that are “politely” providing him a geography lesson. Again - you gotta remember - there is a big difference between Conservatives on the right and Republicans on the Right. We conservatives are just as hard on McCain as are you guys. We don’t like him either and we don’t believe he is any better for this country than Obama is. The Republican lap-dogs will just fall in line right behind this idiot.
Regarding your previous post though - there is no doubt there is some major bias at the NYT. While I don’t support McCain - I certainly believe in fairness in the media and in elections. If they are going to allow the Obamessiah to print a ridiculous plan for losing the war in Iraq - they certainly should have given McCain the opportunity to present his strategy and to point out why Obama’s plan is disastrous for Iraq and America. About the only thing I do agree with McCain on is military strategy and the way he has handled Iraq and the GWOT. Of course, I’m a military brat and ex USAf myself - so - unlike the NYT - I will admit my bias!
Hmm….pot calling the kettle black?
I notice your map is incorreect, listing Israel as being the land area of Palestine as well as Israel. Sorry - did I miss an invasion, and did I miss the change in International law that would be needed for that invaded land to now be part of Israel?
I think not.
You call that a deliberate sin of omission. Who would be the better president? Only time can tell.
@The BoBo : You are going to find bias everywhere you go in life. Nobody is perfectly “fair and balanced,” not even Fox News. I will not argue that there is not a little bias at The New York Times.
However, that being said, if you read what Johnny McCain wrote, it was not an op-ed column. It was a reply to Barack Obama’s op-ed column. As one of the editors pointed out in one of the links in my post, replies to op-ed columns are usually published in Letters to the Editor, not in another op-ed column. Otherwise, you’d just have people arguing with one another in op-ed columns. The Times did offer to publish McCain’s column (which, by the way, was written by somebody on his campaign staff) if he would put some original content in it and make it more than just a rebuttal to Senator Obama’s column.
But, then, you kind of have to expect that kind of behavior from the “liberal media,” don’t you?
@Andy : “My” map is kind of small. I think even you will have to admit that Israel is kind of tiny. Perhaps if I’d had space for a larger, more detailed map, you would have been more pleased. No, you did not miss an invasion. Sorry to disappoint. (The entire point of the map was to illustrate that the border between Iraq and Pakistan is quite large — in fact it’s a whole country called Iran. I think it made that point quite well and thereby served its purpose.)
@Jena Isle : Not a deliberate sin of omission. A sin of not paying attention, perhaps, but not a sin of omission. And I can tell you right now who would be the better president. There is in my mind no doubt whatsoever.
Thanks for dropping by, all of you!
Andy, that land has been Israel’s since 1947 by a British Mandate ratified by the U.N.. It is by their good graces they have permitted the Arabs to live on that land. These territories are only disputed because the Arabs have laid a claim to it with no founding basis. FYI - Palestine is translated in to nomads. The “Palestinians” are a group of nomadic tribes from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. They are Arabs first, palestinian second. Because of their origins as scattered tribes around the country, they really have no basis of claim to any land in Israel. They’ve become organized with a common bond of terrorism and hatred against Israel. Essentially, they are just rogue gypsies looking to take over someone else’s country.
Can I just remind you that Obama at one point said he had campaigned in 57 states so far?
@Carole : You may, and I do not doubt for one moment that if probably felt to him as if he had.
However, given that Johnny McCain has made it a point of reminding us many times over the past few days that he has made eight trips to Iraq since our invasion of that country to Senator Obama’s two, you would really think he would know that Iraq and Pakistan do not share a common border. He is, as he keeps telling us over and over and over again, the expert with all the foreign policy experience. He considers Iraq to be the main front on the war against terrorism, so is it really too much to ask that he knows which countries do and do not border Iraq? He’s the guy, he claims, who “knows how to win wars.” It may be convenient for him to be familiar with the region in which we are fighting one of those wars. One never knows, after all, when the subject may come up during one of those infamous 3 a.m. phone calls.