[lit-ideas] Re: Why us?

RP: Pointing to Bush's failings serves no useful purpose.

JM: What would count as a "useful purpose"? As a political activist, I find it useful in several ways, keeping supporters whipped up, damaging the reputation of the "at best deluded and incompetent and at worst malign" leader of our opposition, etc.

Eric: To confine the point successfully is to confine the definition of "usefulness."

I propose that "useful" refer to (1) reducing terrorism or (2) improving the state of affairs in Iraq or even the greater Middle East.

Sure, Bush-bashing is useful to those of us who would prefer the GOP ousted. However, it has no positive effect on the two terms above, does it?

Impeaching Bush and electing a total cut-and-run US President wouldn't help. Leaving Iraq immediately would spare lots of money and troops, but probably cause many more Iraqi deaths and give the terrorists greater incentive, especially if the terrorists believed that their actions, rather than US internal political mood, had effected the ouster.

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