You Can't Have Alex
An arguably powerful ad by MoveOn.org:
While I'll admit to getting some goosebumps watching the ad, there is a part of me that doesn't quite feel comfortable with using emotional appeals to support/oppose the War in Iraq. If we are going to leave or stay, it should be because its in the best interest of our (and the Iraqis) long term security goals. I personally believe that there won't be peace in the region until we begin to withdraw our forces, which would remove a powerful magnet for radicalism in the region.
Just as I think its foolish to use emotional appeals to support staying indefinitely in Iraq, i.e. if we leave now, their sacrifice will be in vain. So is it wrong to use emotional appeals to support withdraw.
It may be the most effective tool, I won't argue that point, but I don't really think its right.
11 comments:
Sean,
Very powerful.
Someday "You can't have Alex" could rank right up there with "This House would under no circumstances fight for its King and country" in terms of well-intentioned positions that produced unintended consequences.
You may be right as far as the effects of such an ad (the "horserace" aspects), Sean, but this is nothing compared to such appeals to "emotion" as the one seen for sale at the TXGOP convention:
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/stick-a-pin-in-it.html
"If Obama is President . . . will we still call it the White House?"
Ladies and Gentlemen . . . the Republican Party.
Yuck.
Heh, yeah, I saw that...I'm sure the Hillary dead-enders were wishing they thought of it first.
Poll tested to stir the passions of Marxist, pacifists and under the delusional belief that there is where the consciousness of America resides.
What a stupid ineffective ad! It won't move anyone but leftists who were there already. It's based on this false Iraq Vietnam equivalence and myths about both conflicts. How long have we been in Germany, Korea?
If that's the best you got....good luck with that! LOL
"Marxist, pacifists . . ."
What a lovely combination of mid-20th century attacks there, cb.
At least spice it up with "treasonous" or "terrorist sympathizers" because your hackneyed right-wing slurs are [yawn] a bit stale. Yeah . . . yeah . . . zing! You got us! Revolutionary commie peaceniks. Woooo.
I am very close to thinking you might be a parody (of what I am not sure).
"sacrifice in vain" not vein
Thanks for the heads up, I could always use a good editor...do you accept pocket lint as payment? ;-)
So Clinton can't send him to Bosnia either?
Barack Obama, the alleged peace candidate of the 2008 elections, was asked if he would pledge to have all U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2013. His response was: “I think it’s hard to project four years from now and I think it would be irresponsible. We do not know what contingency will be out there. … I don’t want to make promises, not knowing what the situation‘s going to be three or four years out.”
The alleged peace candidate who has made his opposition to the Iraq war a centerpiece of his campaign cannot even promise that the U.S. will be out of Iraq by 2013!
Senator Obama also has stated: “This withdrawal would be gradual, and would keep some US troops in the region to prevent a wider war and go after Al Qaeda and other terrorists.”
Even Obama’s own website proclaims, “he will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda.” One has to wonder if Obama plagiarized those plans from McCain himself due to the extreme similarities.
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