The anti-war left confounds and exasperates me =/
Tonight I listened to a focus group from the Democratic debate. One of the attendees said he was for Obama because he would immediately pull troops out of Iraq. He further revealed that his brother-in-law served in Iraq and was back, but having some mental challenges. So what if he had been in Afghanistan? Because it’s a “legitimate” war would his brother-in-law not have the same (understandable) post-war problems?
No matter your feelings about Iraq, we’re there and we must prevail –period! UBL himself gleefully played Iraq as the central battle ground for the WOT. For months and months the Democrats tried to paint Iraq as a civil war and how it was unwinnable, (of course they didn’t mind our intervention into Darfur’s civil war). Now that the surge is showing very good signs of success, the war is relegated to page A12, they’ve even shelved the ridiculous “death count” page now that they can’t stick this in our faces daily. As I’ve blogged in the past, I’ve stood on the ramp at OIA and watched the honorable procession of a military escort of one of our area’s fallen heroes. I’ve seen young widows, children, parents and siblings – with their sorrow overflowing. It’s a sensation hard to describe as you feel their pain, but also the respect and honor for the ultimate sacrifice of a service member.
In typical fashion, another focus group member spoke of her desire for a department of peace. What a silly notion, we have that: it’s called the Department of Defense!
Although its apparent both in the front pages of newspapers and the presidential election, the war in Iraq is not the focal-point (disaster?) they had hoped for….In a sense, one could argue that President Bush has been too successful in the WOT. Hear me out – since we made Iraq and Afghanistan the central fronts for the war, being on offense has made the nation safer, (note the context). Democrats want us to return to a September 10, 2001 sentiment. They talk tough on terror, but drag their feet in funding the war effort, while diminishing our intelligence resources holding wasteful hearings and worrying about Geneva Convention violations of blood-thirsty killers that want to saw off our heads. If you really want to understand the evil we face, it’s relatively easy to find Internet videos of such gruesome death. Once you understand our enemy, their motivations and their desire to kill Americans, perhaps you will understand when wars are necessary.
Interestingly, with victory in sight, but not guaranteed, the Democrats, (lead by a powerful hard left element in America) are working hard to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I hope I live long enough to see how history judges this period in America.
