And then we can all clasp hands and circle the campfire to sing Kumbaya.
One hardly knows what to say to someone who has attained such high military rank and yet, evidently quite seriously, advocates "showing confidence in the UN Security Council" as a serious foreign policy option. General Odom is well aware of the duplicity of the French in tricking Colin Powell and breaking their promise not to oppose us in the Security Council. The very idea of submitting American survival in a global war against islamist fanatics who would destroy our democracy with atomic weapons as soon as they acquire the means to do so, to a French veto in the Security Council, is to counsel national suicide. Furthermore, Odom is not unaware that the Security Council has utterly failed in its responsibility to prevent the largest scandal in the history of the world in the oil for food deal. No objective observer can fail to judge that the UN Security Council is a cockpit of financial, moral and political corruption. The idea of that America should rest its survival in the global war against terrorism and upon this institution makes one question whether leftists like General Odom entertain a national death wish.
It is always been a strategic goal of the left to do away with national borders and impose an international rule upon us. The single greatest obstacle to this Orwellian utopia is the existence of the United States of America. Does General Odom really want the United States of America to prevail?
In keeping with this fuzzy but warm thinking about internationalizing American foreign policy, one might say in gelding the "hyperpower," Odom wants us to, "knit together a large coalition including the major states of Europe..." The general has got it backwards, the leftists of Europe, especially those who are currently running France and Germany, did not fail to join with us in the invasion of Iraq because they disagreed with that policy, but because they disapproved of us. They do not want us to prevail in the world anymore than they want us to keep the Internet free.
One infers from the general's remarks that if the United States withdraws from Iraq and admits admits its error, such a coalition could be confected to run American foreign policy.
There is a whole body of a leftist thought both here and abroad which does not want America to succeed in any endeavor because it wants to break down the viability of the nationstate as the fundamental building block of international society. I fear General Odom has shown himself to be in this camp. These people do not advance coalition building because they honestly believe it will win the war, they exploit the war as a means of advancing a one world ruling coalition.
