[goldstategop]

There are many good things in this Mark Steyn classic this morning but the line, "America can't muster the will to take on pipsqueak enemies. We think we can just call off the game early, and go back home and watch TV," stands out for me. The Democrats think life is a video game. The real world won't be as kind to America if we cannot muster the will to win in Iraq. Both America's allies and enemies are taking note of what will happen in the Sands Of Mesopotamia.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[kuma]

***They reasoned that if you could subject Americans to the drip-drip-drip of remorseless water torture in the deserts of Mesopotamia -- a couple of deaths here, a market bombing there, cars burning, smoke over the city on the evening news, day after day after day, and ratcheted up a notch or two for the weeks before the election -- you could grind down enough of the electorate and persuade them to vote like Spaniards, without even realizing it.***

Now now he's confusing Dem/MSM strategy with terrorist strategy. The terrorists have every intent of attacking America again they just haven't been able to pull it off.

[beyond the sea]

"Whether or not Rumsfeld should have been tossed overboard long ago, he certainly shouldn't have been tossed on Wednesday morning. For one thing, it's a startlingly brazen confirmation of the politicization of the war, and a particularly unworthy one: It's difficult to conceive of any more public diminution of a noble cause than to make its leadership contingent on Lincoln Chafee's Senate seat. The president's firing of Rumsfeld was small and graceless."

This certainly came off poorly.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Just read George Washington's vision. That's about where we are at.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2444/gwvision.html

[Uncle Ike]

" For the rest of the world, the Iraq war isn't about Iraq; it's about America, and American will. I'm told that deep in the bowels of the Pentagon there are strategists wargaming for the big showdown with China circa 2030/2040. Well, it's steady work, I guess. But, as things stand, by the time China's powerful enough to challenge the United States it won't need to. "

That's the "money quote" in the article...

The United States is declining on an accelerating trend towards ineffectual Euro-Socialism...

[beyond the sea]

Isn't the problem that the American people were solidly behind this when you went in and you toppled the Taliban, when you go in and you topple Saddam. But when it just seems to be a kind of thankless semi-colonial policing defensive operation with no end . . . I mean, where is the offense in this?"

[Enterprise]

The Demoscaggs and their clown allies in the media are now beginning to understand the political trap they have put themselves in. After they take over in January, if they put undue pressure on President Bush, forcing him to withdraw the military, and if there is a "meltdown" into a civil war, and if the entire area becomes destabilized, they are going to get the blame. The reasoning is that the media and the Demohags forced President Bush to remove Rumsfeld and change course in Iraq, causing a foreign policy disaster and a miltary defeat, along with a huge spike in energy and a stock market crash. A lot can happen in the next two years, and the Dems know that this may not have been the best time for them to win total control of the Senate and the House. If a disaster unfolds, they know the American people will blame THEM! because the people are already generally suspicious of Democrat support for the military. And it goes double if they spend the next two years in endless subpoenas and circus style investigations.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

I love Steyn and thinks he's the best and I do not think he is wrong on most things. But (and you knew it was comign) I do not think the President fired Rumsfeld. I think Rumsfeld insisted on going in the face of what was coming now that the dems had been elected.

[Kozak]

ping

[beyond the sea]

"These Colors Don't Run"

These colors ran the past Tuesday in the form of emotional voters, the continual old media anti-American bias, and just genuinely soft, poorly-informed citizens.

Bad days ahead.

[freeangel]

"Iraq is a test of American seriousness"

Bzzt-game over--the American people had their say and the jihadists win.

[beyond the sea]

What does it mean when the world's hyperpower, responsible for 40 percent of the planet's military spending, decides that it cannot withstand a guerrilla war with historically low casualties against a ragbag of local insurgents and imported terrorists?

It says we are gutless, but not to worry, as the self-righteous and ever-irritating Sean Vanity would say, "let not your heart be troubled."

As Mort Kondracke would say, "The shotgun wedding........... the Republican President and Democrat Congress" will take care of everything. (sarcasm off)

[wastoute]

Ultimately we will win, but we will have to show those assholes what a REAL IED is.

[Tribune7]

Bush is going to be president for two more years. The Dems don't have the numbers to overturn any vetos.

And we still may have a pro-war majority in the Senate. Liebermann is a hawk. I'm guessing the Dem from Montana might be one too.

[PGalt]

bttt

[Aquinasfan]

It's difficult to conceive of any more public diminution of a noble cause than to make its leadership contingent on Lincoln Chafee's Senate seat... A nostalgic boomer columnist in the Boston Globe argues that honor requires the United States to "accept defeat," as it did in Vietnam. Didn't work out so swell for the natives, but to hell with them.

I couldn't read any further. This is too painful.

[johnny7]

The president's firing of Rumsfeld was small and graceless.

Yup... it was a mini-TET for al Qaeda as well.

[aberaussie]

bttt

[Dustbunny]

Over the last 6 years we really tried to stay faithful to President Bush. Problem is, he acted like a Democrat in much of his legislation. When he threw Rumsfeld to the dogs we said enough is enough. I actually sat and cried.

We vote a straight Republican ticket, we are Conservative Republicans. We had such high hopes of another Ronald Reagan in office with a Conservative Republican led Congress. Yea, right.

We held our noses and voted a straight Republican ticket 11/6/06. What a waste.

Steyn is as usual right on the mark.

Maybe Armageddon in closer than we realize.

[gridlock]

Bump for later.

[Twinkie]

"fainthearted tentative policing operation" . . well, that's the picture the lamestream media painted so perfectly of Iraq at any rate . . there was more to it than that, but PEA SEA and the 20-second sound byte rules in America today.

I'm sure Nancy and Company won't disappoint Al Qaeda in Iraq or anywhere else; although, the most current suicide bomber in Baghdad would indicate they aren't moving fast enough to suit AQ leaders. Nance better get a move on or one of them (AQ) just might show up on her doorstep for a bit of "brotherly" love. CHANGE . . the mantra "buzzword" of the Democrat party this election . . but, it's just the same old donkey wearing an Armani pantsuit sans that horrible, gauche American flag pin.