It absolutely terrifies me that we could elect someone who knows nothing about the world, the war, the middle east. I do NOT want another president who leads from his gut.
From:
http://www.matthewyglesias.com/archives/2007/02/and_then_theres_rudy/Mr. King asked if Mr. Giuliani would agree that the Senate would have voted unanimously against the war if it were known that Mr. Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction.
“Yes, I guess,” he said, but he added that such a vote would say nothing about whether the war was right.
Giuliani says he thinks the war was right (obviously, he has a low opinion of Republican Senators) but that if he'd been president he would have invaded with "maybe 100,000 to 130,000 more" troops than Bush deployed even though no such volume of additional troops was available.
"Of course there were mistakes," according to Giuliani, which merely proves what a great man Bush is: "Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes."One quirk of American politics is that leading presidential candidates normally go into the campaign with little if any foreign policy experience. Most, however, at least recognize this as a problem and try to study up as part of the campaign effort.
Giuliani comes to us as a rare duck -- a candidate whose signature issue is national security but who doesn't know anything about national security, and therefore won't study. Result: Nonsense, combined with temperamental authoritarianism.And this from:
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/07/rudy_iran_behind_sept_11_attacks As for Iran, Mr. Giuliani said that “in the long term,” it might be “more dangerous than Iraq.”
He then casually lumped Iran with Al Qaeda. “Their movement has already displayed more aggressive tendencies by coming here and killing us,” he said.
Mr. Giuliani was asked in an interview to clarify that, inasmuch as Iran had no connection to the Sept. 11 attacks. Further, most of its people are Shiites, whereas Al Qaeda is an organization of Sunnis.
“They have a similar objective,” he replied, “in their anger at the modern world.”
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Here you have the Rudy game plan laid bare. The whole subtext of all this is simple:
Rudy understands on a gut level better than anyone else just how bad those damn "ragheads" can be, and he knows we need to deal with 'em. This is in a sense the chief argument Rudy is making. But, channeling Matthew Yglesias, it doesn't constitute actual knowledge about national security issues in any way, shape or form.
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Maybe Colbert needs to start doing Rudy.
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