Democrats Don't Get It

If there were every any doubt that the Democrats cannot be trusted with our national security, I would hope they have been laid to rest. David Limbaugh has this to say:

It is mystifying, maddening and outrageous that people like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are demanding a date certain that we will withdraw from Iraq. It's as if they believe we can turn this war on and off with a spigot simply by removing our troops from Iraq.

Even apart from the monumental waste of American lives and resources, and the catastrophic consequences for Iraq, democracy and the Middle East our precipitous withdrawal would cause, we must understand that pulling out of Iraq will do nothing to end the enemy's war against us. Indeed, such a move would doubtlessly embolden the enemy, encouraging them to hit us harder because they would know we don't have what it takes to endure this war.

Indeed. The witless Democrats seem to think that if we were just a little nicer to the Muslims, if we coddled the prisoners a little more, if we just tried to understand WHY they hate us, then they wouldn't want to kill us. Such stupidity indicates a woeful lack of knowledge of our enemy.

What the Democratic Party leadership obviously fails to recognize is that we are in a war of global reach, and there's no end in sight -- literally. And our enemy would be no less committed to our destruction if we immediately withdrew from Iraq or gave every Gitmo prisoner daily bubble baths.

Are the Democrats really so clueless as to believe that even better treatment of the prisoners at Gitmo would result in fewer attacks on our military? Or does it go a little deeper than that? I am of the opinion, as Jim is, that Dick Durbin said exactly what he meant, and that many of the Democrats in Congress feel the same way about our military and our country. When they are not in charge, they think that America is the bad guy. Apparently they will stop at nothing to try and make the rest of the country, and indeed the world, feel the same way. If they believe that will restore them to power, they are perfectly willing to do so. They really do disgust me. Durban, Dean, Kennedy, and the rest of their power-hungry cronies do not deserve to hold the honor of public office. They deserve public humiliation, something that their pals in the press, of course, will not do. They will cover for them like they always do.

The Iraqi people themselves have embraced freedom and democracy, as they demonstrated in spades by their historic turnout at the polls despite the risk to their lives in doing so. Iraq happens to be the primary venue of the War on Terror currently because international terrorists - extremist Muslim fanatics - have enormous incentive to prevent the development and spread of democracy there and elsewhere in the Middle East. If it can blossom there, it can blossom anywhere - and that doesn't portend well for their vision of a global Muslim theocracy.

Given these realities, the Democrats' call for a specific withdrawal date from Iraq is incomprehensibly reckless. What American or Iraqi benefit can they conceivably imagine from our telegraphing such a date?

The Democrats' call for a specific date indicates a) their total lack of understanding that we're in a war, and b) their willingness to endanger our military and our national security if it will make the President look bad.

In moral terms, there is no comparison between us and the enemy, and it would be most helpful if the minority party in the United States would quit feeding the lie that there is.