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June 8, 2005
Lefties Lose It
Today on the drive home from work I was listening to Sean Hannity. He kept playing a clip of himself on the Rosie O'Donnell show debating her and some other leftie women. It was absolutely hilarious. I hear that he showed it on his TV show also, but I'm not much of a TV watcher and was too busy to check.
Anyway, Rosie and/or the other leftie women were absolutely shouting at Sean over how terrible they thought it was that we had invaded Iraq. "Iraq was a sovereign country and we attacked in violation of the UN! Abu Ghriab! Abu Ghriab!" The women were absolutely screaming at the top of their lungs at him. It was all so confused that it was hard to make out how many women there were and who was doing the shouting.
Throughout the clip that he played, Sean kept his cool. He may have raised his voice a bit, but that was about it. He goaded them into losing their cool. And made complete fools of them (or her).
So what of this Sovereignty Business?
But what of it? Did Rosie (or whomever was screaming at Sean) have a point in arguing that our invasion was illegal?
Of course not.
We are a democratic, sovereign, nation, and may act on our own with or without United Nations approval. In all the wars we have fought since the UN was founded, we never said that UN approval was required, only tha it would be nice to have. Big difference.
Further, governments that are not based on some form of popular representation are in and of themselves illigitimate, as far as I am concerned. I will not have authoritarian or totalitarian nations telling us what we can or cannot do.
We, along with the UK and Australia, were going to assume all of the risks of invading Iraq. There is no reason why a country that is not willing to share in those risks should be able to tell us that we cannot invade.
What about Sovereignty?
Well, what about it? Haiti and the former Yugoslav republics were sovereign nations, right? Wasn't Somalia, too? Yet Bill Clinton attacked all three, and didn't have a UN resolution for any of it. Where was the left's outrage then?
For the record I think that President Clinton did the right thing in all three cases. There, now no one can say I haven't ever said anything nice about him.
For the cruise missile attack on the pharmaceutical plant in Somalia we thought we had good intelligence that it was producing chemical weapons. President Clinton ordered the strike, which in my opinion was the right thing to do. That the intel was bad was not his fault.
Clinton and the Europeans justified intervention in the former Yugoslav republics under the aegis of NATO. But NATO is a defensive treaty, its operative phrase being "an attack on one is an attack on all." Nowhere in its charter is there anything that might be used to justify what we did.
Likewise with Haiti. Haiti was a sovereign nation that had done us no harm. Clinton ordered the troops in on purely humanitarian grounds. This was also the right thing to do.
Ah, but is was quite something to see a bunch of leftist lose their cool at Sean. He is a national treasure. And it provided me with something to write about tonight.
Posted by Tom at June 8, 2005 9:57 PM
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Tom,
I had the pleasure of seeing the clip on T.V.
Rosie was squaking up a storm, it was definitely laugh-worthy! What's interesting is how much more subdued she was shortly after 9/11. In an interview back then she almost seemed to be shifting a little towards the right. But I guess her friends were able to free her from the bonds of reality.
Posted by: Larry at June 9, 2005 9:04 AM
