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November 12, 2006

Faint-hearted Dems Plan For (terrorist) Victory

Topics: War on Terror

Jules Crittenden at BostonHerald.com offers his congratulations to his Democratic friends, and says -. We're Euro-stylin' now!

The . . . whatever it is in Iraq . . . is no longer a war, it's a "problem," House Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi says. Abandonment enthusiast John Murtha, in the running for majority leader, is less ambiguous about it. George Bush "is not going to go on with this war in Iraq." Murtha wants a Vietnam in Iraq. Chaos and mass murder in Iraq. A victory for terrorism in Iraq. An end of America's relevance in the world, compliments of Iraq.

So much for the party of FDR, Truman and JFK. This is the party of Jimmy Carter.

Bush, meanwhile, is moving toward appeasement. With the cautious choice of Robert Gates for the Pentagon, Bush wants to work with the Democrats for success in Iraq. He's waiting for the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which has signalled it wants talks with Iraq's terrorist-backing neighbors in Iran and Syria.

For all the complaints that Donald Rumsfeld took us to war with insufficient forces, we have yet to hear our leaders express a desire to correct that with sufficient forces. A big stick to carry while speaking softly in Tehran and Damascus. To influence Iraq's meddlesome neighbors by inflicting defeat on their proxies in Iraq. To give Iraq's elected government some breathing space.

So much for the party of Ronald Reagan. We're back to Gerald Ford.

Read more and join with Crittenden in asking just how many times can a great nation retreat from inferior forces and remain great. Furthermore, if a nation's people won't fight for what they believe in, then of what worth are that nation's values?

Posted by Richard at November 12, 2006 3:25 PM

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