The message
was clear: if Iran and Syria assist the insurgents in Iraq, they will be engaged.
Now, you and I know that Iran will continue to engage American troops and try
to disrupt our mission of stabilizing Iraq. And why not when it has the American
leftist media as its ally, broadcasting our “failures” day in and
day out?
The Left is comfortable with failure – they embrace it believing that
if America is taken down a notch, we will be more equal/less dominant to the
rest of the world and then the world might “like us” more. In Left
World, it’s more important to be liked than to be right. To the Left’s
dismay and incredulity, President Bush doesn’t care about being liked
and his fingers aren’t chapped, as are his adversaries, from waving them
in the wind to see what the polls are saying.
How many different versions of "cut and run" do we have to hear? Murtha's version? Ted Kennedy's? Harry Reid was *for* the surge before he was against it. Which Democrat actually wants us to win? Oh yeah, but Joe Lieberman isn't a Democrat anymore, as I recall.
If Bush’s leftwing, idea-free, spineless critics had advised previous
presidents, Harry Truman would have abandoned Korea, FDR would have pulled our
troops out of Europe in 1942 (they’re still there to this day), and Abraham
Lincoln would have negotiated a settlement with the South.
In fact, the president’s policy of engaging terror-sponsoring states
is completely correct. Iran is now – justifiably – in the crosshairs.
Not because Bush is a “warmonger” but precisely the opposite. The
president does not want a wider war against us, or our allies, one waged with
nuclear weapons that the Iranians are developing at warp speed. Major diplomatic
efforts have been fostered by the Bush administration vis-à-vis Iran’s
nukes, but to no avail (did the EU get anywhere with them in four years of “negotiation”?
No.)
The Left doesn’t want to give the president credit for his diplomatic
push – it would disrupt their obsessive hatred of him and Republicans
in general. So, the war will expand and rightfully so – Iran MUST be dealt
with – the sooner the better. Then, watch how quickly Iraq becomes stabilized,
Lebanon resumes its budding democracy, Hamas gets the boot from the Palestinians,
and the Iranian people overthrow the Mullahs.
I’m glad to know that while Democrats spend time talking about silly
subjects like global warming, our president is concentrating on the global war
that is being waged against us, which will only get worse if we disengage as
the feckless Left wants us to. If they had an ounce of guts, Democrats would
de-fund the war. But they don’t and they wont. Right now, radical Muslims
are fighting Ethiopia, Israel, Russia, India, America, Iraq, Lebanon, Thailand,
The Philippines … shall I go on? Yet, the Left makes believe we’re
not really in a global war. And they call the president delusional!
As writer Jack Cashill says: "Ignorant of the past, our friends on the
Left don't have a clue as to causes. Blind to the present, they don't see the
need for solutions."
Seth,
After reading this drooling diatribe, I almost took "Instant Pleasure" out of my computer and smashed it. Still thinking about it.
I could quote facts until I'm red in the face, about how intelligence was fabricated to start the war, how the National Intelligence Assessment confirms that our involvment in Iraq is actually increasing the terrorist threat, or that how it is clear, starting all the way back in 2004 with a CIA assessment, that Iraq has become a civil war, that we can't win.
But you seem to have fallen into the same group think that led us to start a war on fabricated claims of weapons of mass destruction. The problem with the Bush administration is that they view the world the way they want to, with unflagging optimism and a "we're right everyone else is wrong" attitude, and all evidence to the contrary is attacked and dismissed. People who choose to ignore facts and live in their fantasies are called delusional, outside the White House.
To me, strong leadership means considering all viewpoints. It means having the guts to admit when we are wrong. It might even mean surrendering a battle so we can win the war.
