Posted on 11/08/2006 10:30:21 AM PST by quidnunc
Regardless of its final composition, and regardless of other pressing issues or its mandate, the leading item of business for the new U.S. Congress will be Iraq.
It didn't matter who won control of each house — the fix was already in. Look at the composition of the Baker-Hamilton commission, which the outgoing Congress had already appointed to "find a way out of Iraq" — a bipartisan commission, representing the foreign-policy opponents of President Bush in both the Republican and Democratic parties. Soon it will formally report.
James Baker, secretary of state under President Bush's father, was the man who, in 1989, secured an American exit from Lebanon by effectively surrendering the country to Assad's Syria. Lee Hamilton, former Democrat chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, joined him in stacking the Commission's study groups with men and women representing the pre-9/11 foreign policy consensus, which could be summarized in the phrase, "stability through disengagement". On the Baker-Hamilton plan, Congress will take the war in Iraq out of President Bush's hands, as Congress took the Vietnam War out of President Nixon's. Iraq will then be delivered into the hands of Iran's ayatollahs.
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We can't leave them high and dry now!
The decisions as to the right and honorable things to do were placed in the wrong hands last night. They'll do whatever they feel is in the best interests their future power. Those who have sacrificed can just deal with it.
Because the people of America just blinked.
How did we blink on 9/11?
They won't do that and risk rousing the American public such as happened after 9/11.
Instead they are going to subject us to the death of a thousand cuts on the peripheries until our resolve collapses completely and we surrender to their will.
A nightmarish article. Scary because it's true.
A must read.
When you trivialize the best of the American crop like that, you insult us all.
Yes, and Republicans will blame the Democrats declaration of defeat in Iraq, and the Democrats will blame the Republicans failure in Iraq.
"The only question is, what are you prepared to do about it?"
That would be great, IMHO. Who cares who gets the credit, so long as we WIN.
Problem is our internal enemies probably won't be satisfied with anything short of complete and definitive defeat, just as was the case wrt Vietnam. BTW, the ostensible claim that they just want to "bring the troops home" is lie, as was also proved by Vietnam. The American (and international) left actively pursued the defunding, deligitimization, demoralizing and defeat of South Vietnam even after America troops had been removed from the country and a peace treaty was signed.
Of course their overriding aim is not defeat for America as such, but America's humiliation and humbling of its supposed predatory "arrogance" thereby. I'd even be satisfied if it could be made to appear to the American Left (while not so much to our external enemies) that America had been "humbled," but in such a way that we could still actually win. I doubt that's possible though.
ummm,
didnt the WTC get bombed in 93?
or is Ramzi Youseff in jail for J-walking?
Sorry. I need to clear up what I wrote. I meant that from the Dems perspective.
My personal view of last night's nightmare w.r.t. those who have sacrificed, you included, cannot be stated without wanting to cry.
WTF? We blinked yesterday. Who said anything about 9/11?
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear, I was referring to the time running between the two WTC attacks.
The terrorist haven't been able to successfully hit us again, but they have tried.
Do you get the feeling that sleeper trolls are out in force today?
It's likely they haven't hit us again because they have been engaged elsewhere.
YES!! They're ALL OVER THE PLACE on FR!
We didn't blink on 9/11. We blinked thru the 90s and in 2000 with the USS Cole. Bin Laden has stated this so many times that we are a paper tiger, and the specific example he uses is Somalia. I would consider that a blink, wouldn't you?
I wish I had thought to add that truthful statement too, Allegra. Well said!
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