Symptoms of a Larger Democratic Illness
Yea they hate Booshes America and our military and cheer for the Taliban and Al Qaeda and another Viet Nam like cut and run !
Saturday marks the first anniversary of what might be the single most craven public statement by a wartime elected leader in the history of the United States. Unfortunately, it stands as a symbol of liberal Democratic cravenness, or worse, throughout this decade, in a pattern of openly wishing for American failure in Iraq and in other foreign affairs, and of characterizing our missions as not just impractical but actually immoral.
The speaker was Harry Reid, majority leader of the U.S. Senate. The subject was the war in Iraq, and the "surge" in American troops there that had barely even begun and was still months away from full deployment. What he said, in full, was this: "I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and -- you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows -- this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday."
Not only was Reid wrong on the facts, but the potential damage to American troop morale, and the potential morale boost for terrorists worldwide, was unfathomably large. For the fourth-ranking official in American government to say that troops currently fighting on our behalf have already lost is to consign them to a state somewhere between limbo and oblivion. He managed to impugn the integrity and human decency of the Secretaries of State and Defense as well, implying that they would continue to send American soldiers abroad to fight and die for a mission they knew was useless.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13071snip
