Democratic Plan to Keep us Safe—Be More Like the Europe!

Democratic Plan to Keep us Safe—Be More Like the Europe! Thank God for C-Span.

For two days it broadcast the speeches by Democratic presidential hopefuls attending their party’s winter meeting, and for two days we were reminded why the Dems keep losing elections. They claimed to speak up for “the regular people,” but it became clear that their “regular people” are more like George Clooney than Ward Cleaver.

Dick Gephardt reached back to the 2000 recount to rally the crowd: “George Bush is not gonna be easy to beat. This is a guy who came in second in the election and still figured out how to get in the Oval Office.”

Former Senator Carol-Mosely Braun, who avoided prison a few years back, wowed the crowd with: “Duct tape is no substitute for diplomacy!” When she was asked what her college major had been, she responded haltingly, “Uh…I think history…but I’ll get back to you on that.” (nervous laughter)

Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, proud leftist, is an early media-darling: “What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic Party is supporting the president’s unilateral attack on Iraq?” Can someone please tell the Democrats that the prefix “uni-“ means one. We have dozens of nations supporting us in any war against Saddam.

Dennis Kucinich, full-time Ohio Congressman and part-time ventriloquist, tried to out-do Gov. Dean, stage left. He condemned the prospect of a war "initiated by our own government against a nation which did not attack us.” At one point he sounded like he was speaking for the Iraqi Ministry of Information: “Iraq was not responsible for the anthrax attack on our nation. Iraq does not have the technology to strike at this nation. Iraq does not have nuclear weapons." Call Al Jazeera!

Al Sharpton, part-time reverend, full-time racial provocateur, was not content to take swipes at Bush, he took on the Supremes too: “[Bush] is the ultimate beneficiary of a set-aside program. The Supreme Court set-aside a whole election for him.” Actually a pretty funny line, but wouldn’t it be grand if Sharpton lavished such vitriol on Saddam?

But perhaps the most disturbing speech was that given by so-called Demohawk Sen. Joe Lieberman. Lieberman fell all over himself to explain how you can be for a war against Saddam in Iraq and still wage war against Bush at home: “By pulling out of the Kyoto global warming treaty, arms control treaties and other international pacts, and by issuing an unnecessary and divisive policy of military pre-emption, George W. Bush has separated us from most of the rest of the world and weakened our alliances just at the time when we need them more than ever.” Translation: If America becomes as liberal as France and Germany on issues unrelated to Iraq, France and Germany will help us in Iraq.

Strip away the Democratic rhetoric, and what you’ll find is the core belief that America should really stop acting like a super power. The Democrats believe the best way to protect against terrorist attacks is to act less like a dominant force and more like a domesticated global partner. This essentially requires that we sign on to treaties such as the one creating the International Criminal Court, or remain bound by accords like the ABM treaty, regardless of whether they are in our national interest.

Why stop there? Let the Europeans dictate our tax policy as well. In recent days the heads of the European Central Bank and euro-zone finance ministers have expressed “deep skepticism” about President Bush’s tax cut plan. Whether the issue is tax policy, gun control, health care, abortion, the environment, or the death penalty, Democrats are more in sync with Europe than America. Memo to the Democratic presidential field: Europeans don’t vote in American elections. At least not yet.

E-Blast Extra: (New York, NY) Not only did Sunday’s Grammy Awards not turn into a 3- hour commercial for the anti-Bush/Blair/take-out Saddam crowd, the few brief attempts to inject politics into the evening triggered no spontaneous outburst of cheers. Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit lived up to his group’s name when he said: “I think we’re all in agreeance (sic) that this war needs to be stopped.” Good news: I wasn’t the only one groaning in the first 10 rows.

WORD OF THE WEEK Pusillanimous, adj. Lacking courage or cowardly. The pusillanimous attitudes of the French in standing up to terror will eventually come back to haunt them.

WORD OF THE WEEK Pusillanimous, adj. Lacking courage or cowardly. The pusillanimous attitudes of the French in standing up to terror will eventually come back to haunt them.

It will.

Let me take this opportunity to make a special request of all Freepers. Please read (re-read if you've already read) A Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill. This is Volume 1 of a six-volume series on WW2. (It is not necessary to read the other five volumes but they are a good read if you are so inclined.) This first volume is an incredible book and it should be read by all Americans, heck, all Westerners, for that matter.

I started re-reading this book over the weekend and I was blown away by the similarities of today's situation to the situation that existed in the 1930s.

Just as Iraq was bound by the treaties of 1991, so was Germany bound by the Versailles Treaty that ended WW1 in 1918. Winston Churchill clearly shows in this book how if only the Western powers had the fortitude to enforce the Versailles Treaty, that WW2 never would have happened and Hitler would never have come to power.

But the Allies looked the other way as Germany began blatantly violating the terms of the Treaty. For example, they were not allowed to have an airforce but they built one right under our noses. And they were not allowed to have more than 100,000 soldiers in the Army at any one time but the Allies allowed them to fudge the numbers and put the command infrastructure in place to become an Army of millions virtually overnight (which they did).

During this time, the Allies, especially England and France adopted the same pacifist policies that they are practicing today. When Hitler began reclaiming parts of Europe for Germany, such as Austria and Czechoslovakia, the Allies adopted a tone of appeasement. They sacrificed those poor countries to the Third Reich so that they could have for themselves, "Peace in our time."

Well I think we all know the rest of the story. Pacifism and appeasement do not work. In fact, these policies end up getting far more innocent people killed in the long run.

There is so much more in this book that is important to read. Everybody should read this book immediately.

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