6/04/2004 11:38:35 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Just now catching the Soros speech from Thursday. I feel like some real-time, C-SPAN delated fisking. It's unfortunate, both for George Soros and the crowd. He claims we don't care about the Iraqi people because we didn't send in enough troops...interesting assessment, that wouldn't get applause for any other speaker in front of this same group of naive, self-righteous, American hating stooges. Of course, he said it, then followed that we are responsible for the ransacking of Iraqi museums.

I really liked George Soros before this. Currency trader extraordinate - geopolitical knave. His simile, that the bubble of the 1990s is apropos to the Bush administration's policies today, is disingenuous. His argument, it seems, is essentially that stability should be achieved above all else. Accordingly, the bubbles are self-correcting. If that is the case, intellectual consistency requires one not being too worried about Bush. Policies will self-correct.

Oh, so we've been deceived, and have embarked on a policy in which we cannot succeed...I suppose nukes's in NYC and sarin in San Francisco would be preferred to attempting to succeed.

Stifling of dissent? Really? Ashcroft passed the Patriot Act? Congress? Senate? Democrats? Anybody? Bueller???

Abu Ghraib is the moment of truth. Of course, as he then says, that is not what this nation stands for. Very true. Now is where he compares Abu Ghraib to 9/11.

The war on terror has claimed more innocents than 9/11??? Oh my - complete sillines, Soros. How many people did the Taliban and Hussein kill annually...that seems not to be considered, at all. It's a net number, not a gross, one-sided number. Soros knows better. He understands finance, which means he understands basic math. Very unfortunate.

Now he's arguing that we are pushing Iraq towards civil war because we're not killing enough of the resistance. No response from the crowd. Only because Bush is scared of too many US casualties.

Iraq has been an utter disaster. Our military power has diminished? The Hussein government fell in a matter of weeks.

Ah, there it goes - our standing in the world is damaged. Predictable.

And now he calls for American regime change. Democracy is now disfavored by Soros and the haters, apparently.

Key No Applause Line - "The United States is the most powerful nation on earth."

I can take no more.

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