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January 9, 2006
Just One Bullet Away
Topics: IraqThese days, even our cowboys are characterized as queers gay by an "anything but patriotism and historical reality" Hollywood, (they would now have John Wayne lusting after the backsides of his fellow tough guys), terrorists are 'just another bunch of sensitive, misunderstood, and loving folks in the neighborhood, the Deaniacs and Kerryites have all the answers (all of which have to do with being touchy feelly with the enemy and treating the EU as our elder statesmen), and anything President Bush is for - is just another cowbow stunt by a moron.
And as for our youth, as Salena Zito puts it in a Trib Review," We Americans stopped raising warriors and started raising young people who have more baggage than Paris Hilton at a Louis Vuitton sale. "
Then comes along the words from a Marine Officer who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, who talks of pride, gratitude, and of country, who says that our country needs its best and brightest in uniform always - but now maybe more than anytime in recent history, and that apologists for cut and run need not apply, or re-enlist.
Who also makes the argument that when Bush landed on that aircraft carrier ... at that moment, the mission was accomplished," he says. "The insurgency had not yet begun. The regime had ended. It was not until August of 2003 that Iraq became more violent."
And "As for withdrawing precipitously from Iraq," he offers rational reasons not to:
"On a humanitarian level, the current low-grade civil war would become an all-out civil war without U.S. forces keeping a lid on the violence. ... On a strategic level, there is a very real danger of a failed state in the heart of the Middle East ... ."Great article - keep reading...Finally: "Reputations matter, commitments matter and Iraq must not be added to that list of jihad PR victories."
To allow the cut-and-run platform of the Howard Deans of the debate to be our guiding light is chilling. Had George Washington adopted their philosophy, we'd all have British accents. We have no future of values if we tuck tail when the going gets tough.
We're ever more only one bullet away from defeat, and many of us are acting as though we're not even in a war.
Hat tip - Harry Owens
Posted by Richard at January 9, 2006 7:10 AM
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