Stand. Fight. Win.
In what will surely provoke the left into a complete, shrieking frenzy, the Washington Post, in addition to running David Broder's column calling Harry Reid inept (speaking truth to Bozo), is also running and op-ed written by Joe Lieberman. And it is a humdinger. So it's a one-two punch: the guy who earned the undying hatred of the left by pointing out that Ned Lamont was a very poor choice of candidates and the man who proved it by beating Lamont in the general election.
But if tomorrow Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds were to achieve the "political solution" we all hope for, the threat of al-Qaeda in Iraq would not vanish.
Al-Qaeda, after all, isn't carrying out mass murder against civilians in the streets of Baghdad because it wants a more equitable distribution of oil revenue. Its aim in Iraq isn't to get a seat at the political table; it wants to blow up the table — along with everyone seated at it.
Certainly al-Qaeda can be weakened by isolating it politically. But even after the overwhelming majority of Iraqis agree on a shared political vision, there will remain a hardened core of extremists who are dedicated to destroying that vision through horrific violence. These forces cannot be negotiated or reasoned out of existence. They must be defeated.
The challenge before us, then, is whether we respond to al-Qaeda's barbarism by running away, as it hopes we do — abandoning the future of Iraq, the Middle East and ultimately our own security to the very people responsible for last week's atrocities — or whether we stand and fight.
To me, there is only one choice that protects America's security — and that is to stand, and fight, and win.
Read the whole thing. It is merciless toward the cut and run wing of the Democratic party. This, of course, is why the nutroots hate Joe Lieberman so much. He's an old-style hawkish Democrat who believes first and foremost in the defense of the country in the mold of JFK. I suspect JFK would not be welcome in today's party, either.
By Gayle Miller, Thursday, 26 April , 2007 @ 2:46 pm
Mind you - the WaPo is commonly called “Pravda on the Potomac” by most who live in and around the Beltway. Thus this is even more surprising.
JFK and RFK would not recognize today’s Democratic Party, and I very much suspect they would find both Jimmah Carter and their brother Teddy embarrassing in the extreme.
By daveinboca, Thursday, 26 April , 2007 @ 8:37 pm
The screaming hysteric feminazis and hermaphrodites on the left have called for a blogswarm against Broder and Lieberman. That’s what moonbats do, swarm at twilight, in the realm of half-truths where their ideas come from.