Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Democrats and War

I'm tired of the only two options in Iraq being to stay the course or to pull out. Democrats are being stupid on this issue. There is a third choice, which should actually be the second: Engage our allies to help with the fight, move in with more troops and secure the place. Rumsfeld's argument is that more troops will only provide more targets for insurgents and increase the level of resentment toward us. This is a fundementally weak position.This assumes that insurgents strike at will now and no matter how many troops we put on the ground, they will always strike at will. I supported the war and think this is one we can't lose, but everything I read from a big picture standpoint suggests terror is winning because we don't have the will to win. Nearly all of the propaganda you read about how things are safer seems to adhere to the idea that the plural of anecdote is data. The visit to one town where the insurgents have been driven out or the rebuilding is working is then extrapolated over the whole country.

1 Comments:

At 8:35 PM, Blogger Lone Ranger said...

There's one flaw with that. In countries that call themselves our allies, the left is far more powerful than they are here. They can apply far more pressure on their leaders to turn tail and run. Look what happened in Spain. Look how the Philippines split when one of their people was kidnapped. Our allies don't have the political fortitude to do what needs to be done. I'm amazed Blair has stuck with it so long. I'm not amazed at Howard and Koizumi. They're standup guys. The will to win is essential in this type of warfare. That's why Democrats do so much damage. They are not only undermining our war efforts here, they are giving the enemy moral support. Al-Jazeera loves it when Ted Kennedy steps up to a microphone. I'm thinking he'll never set foot in Iraq because he'd make such a huge target for one of our guys.

 

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