Posted on 07/07/2006 8:01:42 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Issues & Insights
The Writing On The Democrats' Wall
Posted 7/7/2006
Origins Of Terrorism: The Democrats and anti-war left want us to entrust them with the war on terror in 2006 and 2008 — a war that could have been prevented when they did have the reins.
The war we're engaged in did not begin Sept. 11, 2001, but during the administration of Jimmy Carter. On taking office in 1977, he declared that advancing "human rights" was among his highest priorities. America's ally, the shah of Iran, was one of his first targets, with Carter chastising him for his human rights record and withdrawing America's support.
When Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the shah in February 1979, he established the first modern Islamic regime, a role model for the Taliban and the jihadists to follow.
And when the U.S. Embassy was stormed that November and 52 hostages were held for 444 days, our lack of resolve was confirmed in the jihadist mind.
The wreckage of American aircraft in the Iranian desert in an ill-fated rescue only served to confirm our naivete and ineptitude. The rest, as they say, is history.
The Soviet Union, seeing us so willingly abandon a staunch ally, invaded Afghanistan, and it was the resistance to the Soviet invasion that helped give birth to the Taliban.
Fast-forward to the Clinton administration, and once again we see the fruits of Democratic foreign policy. On Oct. 3-4, 1993, the armed forces of the world's only superpower engaged in battle with the forces of Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Adid in the streets of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
After a 15-hour battle, 18 Americans were killed and 80 wounded. One dead U.S. soldier was dragged through the streets in an act designed to humiliate the U.S. in the jihadist world....
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BTTT for a must-read article.
Agree completely Jacquerie but in your above statement is our country's salvation. George Bush and our country are slowly winning the Iraq War and the Rats are fully aware of it and are desperate.
This coming election will tell the tale IMO and I'm glad we're on the side of our President, Americans love winners.
BTTT
Brilliant piece. Every dim in the country should read it, but they won't. Truth is such an inconvenient bother to them, don'tcha know.
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