Africa Open Thread
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Is this another suggestion from Dale Price? Do you want us to discuss the continent or the song?
I like the song. I like the Weezer cover. But then I wore out a Weird Al Yankovic tape listening to my Walkman mowing lawns when I was a teen.
So, how ’bout them Kurds? Think there’s any way?
Never took an interest in Toto. Better music from that era:
Do you want us to discuss the continent or the song?
It’s an Open Thread Art, free discussion on anything.
So, how ’bout them Kurds? Think there’s any way?
Trump at his worst. A feckless decision taken swiftly. Now he has ordered the State Department to get the Turks to stop their offensive against the Kurds. Jimmy Carter couldn’t have done a worse job.
I’m conflicted. There was in Instapundit post listing all the times our media betters have accused us of betraying the Kurds going back to the Carter years. And my thought was, “well, they ought to be used to it by now.”
We don’t have any good options in Syria. Trump’s left holding the bag, unless he wants to pull an Obama and pass the buck to his successor.
That worked out great for us when Clinton did that with An Qaeda and bin Ladin.
We don’t have any good options in Syria.
That is often the case in foreign policy which is why Trump’s Bull in a China Shop method in conducting it is so foolish. Admittedly the foreign policy experts often prove disastrous in their recommendations also.
So…. Benedict Option. Part of the problem or part of the solution?
I notice that, for the most part, when Trump does something to upset the dyspeptic Rod Dreher, it serves as a reminder of everything that’s wrong with the right, or Trump, or the Trumpian right. On the other hand, when the Left does something to make him bilious, like last night’s LGBTQ(rsuvwxyzabc123) forum in which all the contenders to be Trump’s opponent next November vied to outdo each other in throwing civil and constitutional liberties under the rainbow bus, it serves as an opportunity to pitch the Benedict Option.
So…. Benedict Option. Part of the problem or part of the solution?
Running away is rarely a solution to anything.
Dreher pitches it as a strategic withdrawal, but I incline to see it your way. Still it kind of puzzles me that he can’t (or perhaps won’t) find some value in Trump’s brand of populism, if only as a kind of holding action allowing for that withdrawal.
I’ll say this: he may be in too much of a hurry to get there, but at least he knows which hill he wants to die on. So he’s got that going for him; unlike most of the so-called conservative commentariat.
Back to the Kurds in Syria: maybe this wasn’t such a bull in a china shop moment after all:
Dreher pitches it as a strategic withdrawal,
The only thing Dreher ever pushes is his emotional disorders, and vain little apercus which he fancies make him an original thinker. (“Crunchy Cons”, “Benedict Option”).