The fact is this debate, like so many others has to be made using the language of sound bites.
The better argument doesn't always win. Sometimes the better sound bit wins: Like "Flip Flopper" or "Compassionate Conservative" or "Reformer with Results" or "There's no there, there".
So I launched this diary to throw out there a plausible response to "Appeaser, Appeaser, Appeaser" sound bite the Republicans have been using against Obama.
The Bush-McCain Foreign Policy can aptly be described as "Ready, Fire, Aim".
See how it washes after the jump. And kick in your own ideas of sound bite responses as well in the comments.
"Ready, Fire, Aim"
The problem with this debate is that it has to take place in sound bites and pithy statements.
My response might look like this:
"The Bush-McCain foreign policy could aptly be describe as "Ready, Fire, Aim".
"President Bush and John McCain, in there bellicose bravado, want to spread your children’s body parts all over the Middle East and they don’t want to even stop to find out why our would be or alleged adversaries should even be our enemies.
"A prime example of this is Iraq - This is exactly the kind of thinking that got us into Iraq in the first place. The administration ‘kicked’ the weapons inspectors out of Iraq before they finished their job, in order to proceed with the invasion. We didn't need to send our troops into to die in Iraq to find out there were no weapons of mass destruction there. Consequently, the administration, in the first year after the Iraq invasion, gave 28 different reasons for Invading Iraq - as a result we still don’t really know why ‘WE’ invaded Iraq - other than 'ready, fire, aim'.
What we do know is our children's, our brother's, our sister's, our mother's, our father's body parts are being blown to bits all over Iraq. We still don’t know why. And that’s not even addressing the other costs to Iraq. "
The policy description for our reason for going into Iraq can aptly be described as ‘ready, fire, aim," and we’ve been trying to fix that aim ever since.
The burden of the "Ready, Fire, Aim" strategy falls upon the American people.
The President’s, and now McCain’s "ready, fire, aim" strategy is a disaster to this country. Thanks to them, we are shooting ourselves in the foot, over and over again.
The price paid for this is heavy, and it's got to stop. They don't want to stop it, because they don't bare the burden of it - you do.
Obama is offering a strategy that takes aim, and takes measure, before any firing would ever take place.
Remember its "Our" body parts and those of our family, our children and our friends that bare the burden of "Ready, Fire, Aim" strategy and its our tax dollars that have to cover the cost. Republicans make is up on war profits, the rest of us are burdened."