The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
"Astonishing" Democrat Cynicism
This post by Rick Moran really got me going today--because he nails exactly the anger and frustration I have been feeling.
Just last week, I celebrated the anniversary of my 50th lap around the Sun, and I have read about plenty of Americans who came and went long before I showed up--and being a student of American History, it seems to me that the betrayal of our fighting men and women by the Democrat Congress is almost unprecedented. I certainly have never seen anything more shameful or despicable in my lifetime.
The only parallels that come close are two:
And the band played on...
Many American Generals and other pundits--including one of the few NYT reporters respected by both sides of the spectrum (John Burns)--have predicted an even more horrifying genocide and slaughter of those left behind, should we follow the Democrat Party roadmap on Iraq; only this time there would be high likelihood of other regional Arab states being pulled into the conflict to fight Iran and Syria and protect their interests. Can you say "World War"?
So riddle me this: how much more would it then cost the American taxpayers--and in American lives--for us to have to turn around a year (or less) after this "premature ejaculation" from Iraq, and go right back in again to bail out the Saudis and the Jordanians? Does it not make more sense to just take care of business while our forces are already there??
Moran's essay is definitely worth the price of admission--but he also offers up a really succinct Thomas Sowell quote which I will end with:
OK--I feel much better now. That should last me the next 30 minutes or so...
Just last week, I celebrated the anniversary of my 50th lap around the Sun, and I have read about plenty of Americans who came and went long before I showed up--and being a student of American History, it seems to me that the betrayal of our fighting men and women by the Democrat Congress is almost unprecedented. I certainly have never seen anything more shameful or despicable in my lifetime.
The only parallels that come close are two:
- The 1864 (Democrat) Copperheads; however they were ultimately unsuccessful in usurping Lincoln's power--but only because Grant succeeded on the ground before they could pull the plug. (Gen. Petraeus, are you listening?)
- The 1974 desertion of a Vietnam War that we were (finally) winning beginning with our thrashing of the the NVA in 1968-69--which drove the NVA to the Paris Peace table so they could meet up with John Kerry.
Of course the Tet offensive was twisted at the time by "Uncle Walter" Cronkite and a sycophantic Nixon-hating media to be some kind of NVA victory, even though the facts on the ground proved to be 180 degrees otherwise (sound familiar?).
So why then did we bail? A combination of 60's mass hysteria hangover (Forest Gump swimming to his hippie wife-to-be over at the Lincoln Memorial pool...) aided by an emboldened-by-their Coup d'etat-over-Nixon Democrat Congress. The result? The lucky ones were the "boat people" who made it on anything piece of wood that floated to US ships. As for the rest: well, you can start with well over 2 million South Vietnamese refugees being massacred by Cambodian Communist Pol Pot; their only sin was that they trusted that the word of the United States actually meant something--even in a Democrat Congress... Silly them. They simply did not understand the depths that the Democrats were willing to drag the country in order to consolidate its power base... as a result we got (drum roll) Jimmy Carter!
(Notice any similarities between the political affiliations of those that wanted to desert the battlefield in 1864, in 1974, and now who are trying to do it again in 2007?)So why then did we bail? A combination of 60's mass hysteria hangover (Forest Gump swimming to his hippie wife-to-be over at the Lincoln Memorial pool...) aided by an emboldened-by-their Coup d'etat-over-Nixon Democrat Congress. The result? The lucky ones were the "boat people" who made it on anything piece of wood that floated to US ships. As for the rest: well, you can start with well over 2 million South Vietnamese refugees being massacred by Cambodian Communist Pol Pot; their only sin was that they trusted that the word of the United States actually meant something--even in a Democrat Congress... Silly them. They simply did not understand the depths that the Democrats were willing to drag the country in order to consolidate its power base... as a result we got (drum roll) Jimmy Carter!
And the band played on...
Many American Generals and other pundits--including one of the few NYT reporters respected by both sides of the spectrum (John Burns)--have predicted an even more horrifying genocide and slaughter of those left behind, should we follow the Democrat Party roadmap on Iraq; only this time there would be high likelihood of other regional Arab states being pulled into the conflict to fight Iran and Syria and protect their interests. Can you say "World War"?
So riddle me this: how much more would it then cost the American taxpayers--and in American lives--for us to have to turn around a year (or less) after this "premature ejaculation" from Iraq, and go right back in again to bail out the Saudis and the Jordanians? Does it not make more sense to just take care of business while our forces are already there??
Moran's essay is definitely worth the price of admission--but he also offers up a really succinct Thomas Sowell quote which I will end with:
If the war in Iraq is such an unnecessary and futile expenditure of blood and treasure as Pelosi et al. have been saying, why not put an end to it?I am ashamed that my country's good name is associated with this bunch of spineless, cynical, COWARDS who cannot even stand on the strength of their own convictions without having to resort to bribes to the tune of $28 billion of YOUR money..But to do that would mean taking responsibility for the consequences—and those consequences would be disastrous and lasting. They would probably still be lasting when the 2008 elections come around.
The Democrats cannot risk that. They have taken over Congress by a very clever and very disciplined strategy of constantly criticizing the Republicans, without taking the risk of presenting an alternative for whose results they can be held responsible.
There is no sign that they want to change that politically winning strategy now. Their non-binding resolutions against the war are a perfect expression of that strategy.
These resolutions put them on record as being against the war without taking the responsibility for ending it.
OK--I feel much better now. That should last me the next 30 minutes or so...
Labels: Appeasement, Iran, Islamic Fascism, UK
