Wolves And The Sheep Who Love Them

On Wednesday Iran's new figurehead president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, publicly declared as his country's top priority the complete annihilation of Israel - and America, too, if they have any nukes left over [via CQ]:

Iran’s hard-line president called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported Wednesday.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also denounced attempts to recognize Israel or normalize relations with it.

“There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad told students Wednesday during a Tehran conference called “The World without Zionism.”

Ahmadinejad's Islamist candor triggered universal world condemnation - though only of the toothless, impotent, meaningly "diplomatic" variety, as his retort yesterday clearly indicates [also via CQ]:

Iran's president has defended his widely criticised call for Israel to be "wiped off the map". Attending an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his remarks were "just" - and the criticism did not "have any validity."

Last Wednesday's comment provoked world outrage. Israel has called for Iran's expulsion from the United Nations.

Today the Indian capital of New Dehli was the target of multiple terrorist (most likely al Qaeda) attacks [h/t: Powerline]:

Three powerful bombs ripped through New Delhi markets packed with families and shoppers on Saturday ahead of the biggest Hindu and Muslim festivals of the year, killing over 50 people and wounding scores more. ...

At least 51 people were killed in the blasts which occurred within minutes of each other, said an aide to Delhi state Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit [Man, I hope that surname is a misprint...]. Fifty-four people were injured, the aide said.

Also today, Indonesia Islamists went on a decapitation rampage against teenage Christian girls [h/t Michelle Malkin]:

Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack on Saturday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class, police Major Riky Naldo said.

All of which is a rat-a-tat-tat update means of reminding one and all that there's a war on and we have to get back to the task of winning it, as opposed to "managing" it, or still worse, pretending that it doesn't exist.

Seems like a no-brainer, doesn't it? I mean, these enemies aren't exactly subtle, or engage in obfuscation or misinformation about their intentions. Heck, Osama bin Laden is probably jealous of "President" Ahmedinejad's "righteous" candor.

And yet behold the impenetrable ignorance of the seditious domestic left:

A few days ago, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) made a speech urging the U.S., in effect, to get out of Iraq the way we got out of Vietnam.

Leahy told the Senate that we cannot win in Iraq. "It has become increasingly apparent that the most powerful army in the world cannot stop a determined insurgency." (U.S. troops, Iraqi troops, long-suffering Iraqi civilians to Leahy: Thanks, senator, we needed that.) And Leahy announced that the President must lay out a public formula to tell the world just when U.S. troops will leave Iraq. Otherwise, Leahy said, he will urge the Senate to choke off the war by refusing to fund it. That's how the U.S. finally lost Vietnam: Congress snuffed out the money.

And, of course, losing this war would not be an abstraction whose effects would be limited to people thousands of miles away. It would cripple our economy (think al Qaeda taking over Saudi Arabia) and bring our homeland under the kind and level of siege that Israel has suffered for the past decade and a half - and probably worse. Indeed, all it would really take is a single, well-placed EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack to destroy the United States as we have known it and leave the entire world wide open to Islamicization or perhaps even Red Chinese conquest.

Yeah, that's a worst case scenario. But they always start somewhere, and the brain-dead (or treasonous, take your pick) admonitions of Senator "Leaky" and his moribund minority rump sect would be the trigger.

I agree with David Galernter that, "This nation will abandon the Democratic Party before it abandons Iraq" - and the larger war of which it is a part. 9/11 obviously didn't change the American Left (other than to make them even bigger sellouts), but the mainstream public still knows we're in a fight and that it has to be won.

Just look at the vast audience that greeted Cindy Sheehan at the National Press Club yesterday.

You could almost call the attendance "bomb scare" level.