Kondracke Follows Sammon into the Masher
I was watching Special Report with Brit Hume Friday night. Jim Angle was sitting in for Brit, and things went smoothly along through various stories of the day and week. Then, we get to the Round Table, and Jim begins one of the segments discussing North Korea and their threats (which yesterday no longer was a threat). Did you happen to see this segment? If you did, were you aware that Bill Sammon lead Mort Kondracke right into Alice’s Rabbit Hole?
Oh yes, it was fun to watch!
The discussion was swirling around North Korea threatening to blow up a nuke. Bill Sammon and Bill Kristol were doing a great job laying down the path to how we got here, and why Democrats trying to blame this on Bush is just lame - well and flat out wrong. Mort decided it was time to get his views in and suggested that the United States needs to do something proactive and forceful. He was leaning, but not overtly saying, we need to go in with force.
Bill Sammon’s ears perked up on this one.
Bill started choosing his words wisely and leaving Mort time to answer. Bill was reeling Mort in, and I truly think Mort had no idea what was happening. I’ll paraphrase the conversation because I cannot, for the life of me, find transcripts or text on any other blog via Google search. I’ll continue to search the blogosphere, and if you see anything or you’ve posted on this, let me know! Anyway, here is a very loose account of how this went down:
Mort: We really need to get in there and show North Korea we mean business.
Bill: Mort, are you suggesting military action?
Mort: Well, we could provide a strong example of force.
Bill: Are you suggesting, Mort, that we use the US Military and enter, or bomb North Korea?
Mort: We could put military pressure on them …
Bill: Mort, are you suggesting that we enter a sovereign nation, one that has been torturing, murdering, and unafraid to use weapons of mass destruction, and fight there on their soil?
Mort: Well, I mean …
Bill: Mort, are you saying to invade …
Mort: Yes!
Bill: Mort, you’re saying we should invade a nation with a dictator who has no qualms killing his own people, taking over that nation, and return it to the people, like we are in Iraq and in Afghanistan?
Mort: Yes.
It was so striking, I still cannot believe I saw Bill Sammon suck Mort Kondracke in to such an admission. I believe that, as this conversation continued, even Bill Kristol went on to point out that even if we did what Mort was suggesting, we’d just have the same situation we have now with Liberal Democrats - Bush lied, people die.
Bill Sammon was great by slamming the door on the whole thing by closing it all up with the, “Democrats will be OK with action against North Korea for a couple of months, and then they’ll be demanding special investigations and impeachment proceedings for a failed policy with North Korea …”
Blah-Blah-Blah. Mort and the Liberal Democrats just don’t get it.
As Homer Simpson says, “Stupid Flanders!”
TAGS: Fix4RSO, Milblog, Military, Korea, WMD, Special+Report, Bill+Sammon
October 11th, 2006 at 19:30
Tonight’s must read….
….is an article at Fix4RSO. Read it and remember what you’ve read. You’re peering into the future.
October 12th, 2006 at 2:51
This is why I have no worries about November. Americans don’t like appeasement.
October 12th, 2006 at 16:28
Good find. I actually like Mort and I think that exchange is an example of how many Democrats really haven’t logically thought through their positions on Iraq other than how those positions play out politically.
Again, good find.
October 13th, 2006 at 19:50
The Democrats probably just forgot to fax their opinion around to all their congressmen. That’s why their so sketchy.
October 17th, 2006 at 13:59
Korea Prepares More Nuke Tests
The AP reports that North Korea might be preparing for more nuclear weapons tests. The activity, started a number of days ago, included ground preparation at one site and construction of some buildings and other structures, said the official, who