Newt Gingrich Has Said Some Interesting Things, But This Wasn’t One of Them
Just when we all thought Newt might be rehabbed, off he goes, bouncing off the walls and thirsting for war.
Newt is an interesting guy. An ordinary man who engineered, through his ‘Contract With America,’ a stunning takeover of bi-partisan government and then pissed it all away. If you round up the usual suspects, personal hubris is right there at the top of the pile.
A great thing about America is that it lays low those whose high and mighty is higher and mightier than it ought to be. Newt was leveled big-time, having lost it all and since clawed his way back into the public eye.
He’s back and, according to him, none too soon. Gingrich has a plan for our Middle East foreign policy that pretty much picks up George Bush’s dropped sword and carries it into new battles. Which is easier today than it was in the past, when leaders such as the various kings and emperors of Europe led their troops into battle personally.
Right up there where the bullets and arrows flew, Newt. Napoleon didn’t sen…