Learning the wrong lessons
While perusing the usual newspapers this morning, I read about the war in Somalia with Ethiopia in the Washington Post. There’s so little in the news about this, it’s difficult to find anything sometimes.
But the war is directly related to our own war against terror, since Islamofacists learned about our weak spot from Clinton’s hasty withdrawal from Somalia in 1993. Saddam Hussein made it mandatory for his military leaders to watch the film “Black Hawk Down” in the days preceding the US war against Hussein in 2003 to demonstrate how easy it is to destroy our public will to fight our enemies despite our battlefield victories.
About half way down the WaPo story is a quote from some imbecile named John Prendergast, “a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group in Washington”. He’s quoted as saying;
“Hasn’t anyone heard of Iraq? A military strategy of ‘countering terrorism’ never works and will likely blow up in their faces.”
I wonder what this “senior analyst” would have us do? Apparently, well-illustrated by the situation in Somalia, leaving the terrorists alone doesn’t work. As illustrated by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton with Yassir Arafat, negotiations don’t work, either. So what’s the solution Junior Space Cadet John Prendergast?
According to the latest Pentagon reports, specifically the DoD report to Congress last month, the Iraqis are moving towards stability, perhaps not as quickly as we’d like, but they’re going in the right direction. If we had removed Hussein and then left Iraq to it’s own devices (like we did in Panama in 1989 which already had a democraticly-elected government and a law-enforcement entity which were more loyal to the people than to Noriega), it would have become the new Somalia.
In the Washington Times this morning, there’s an Associated Press story that claims that Iran is on the precipice of economic ruin, and if we only wait long enough, internal unrest will bring down the current regime. Unless, of course, the Iranian population believes the the US and Israel are the source of all of the evil in the world and commit themselves to destroying us in the interim. Which they already believe, by the way, Roger Stern, of Johns Hopkins. Bombing them before they get the nuclear bomb is a lot safer than a hungry, angry population with a nuclear bomb.
So the “Peace At Any Cost” crowd have finally found their voices and the mainstream press is more than willing to broadcast their ill-conceived message. There are thousands of comparisions to Neville Chamberlain on the internet, so I’ll spare my readers the same lame paraphrases.
The truth is; these aren’t pro-Peace voices. They’re anti-Bush, anti-Republican and anti-American voices. They’re the voices of the corrupt and morally bankrupt who put cheap politics above our welfare and safety. It would be more accurate to call them the “Democrat Majority at-any-cost” voices.
In attempting to research this piece, I found thousands of articles that count the American and Coalition dead and wounded, but not a single chart depicting the other side’s losses One CBC article even made a point of mentioning that because the Pentagon doesn’t release enemy casualties, they don’t know what the number is – as if they’d believe the Pentagon number anyway. The Pentagon has provided them an excuse for being intellectually bankrupt.
Category: Jimmy Carter, Terror War
