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Tue, July 10th, 2007 @ 10:19AM by Mike

So let's see if I have this all figured out here.

After more than

of

Saddam

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Tue, July 10th, 2007 @ 10:19AM by Mike

So let's see if I have this all figured out here.

After more than ten years of empty bluster from both the UN and the
Clintonistas, Saddam remained a swaggering, villainous, terror-sponsoring
dictator - a brutal thug responsible for torturing and/or murdering
literally millions of his own hapless subjects and those of neighboring
Islamic kleptocracies.

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Tue, July 10th, 2007 @ 10:19AM by Mike

So let's see if I have this all figured out here.

After more than ten years of empty bluster from both the UN and the
Clintonistas, Saddam remained a swaggering, villainous, terror-sponsoring
dictator - a brutal thug responsible for torturing and/or murdering
literally millions of his own hapless subjects and those of neighboring
Islamic kleptocracies. Terrorist attacks against American interests were
increasing in scope, audacity, and deadliness. Clinton continued his
bumptious shadowboxing routine, with no discernible result. He did manage
to lock up a meager handful of those who had attacked us - after the fact,
naturally; Democrats strongly disapprove of preemptive defense - but as far
as doing any real damage to the continuing ability of radical
Islamofascists to execute their nefarious plans against us, Clinton was the
usual empty-suit Democrat, with no real understand of or empathy for the
military option, and a visceral loathing not only for the prospect of using
it, but for those in uniform who would be charged with carrying out any
order for such he might give. That loathing assuredly went both ways,
soldiers not being nearly as stupid or childlike as Democrats like The
Creep generally assume.

Then, as a direct result of the failure of Clinton's feeble charade of
concern for national defense to fool a living soul, Osama bin Laden, having
witnessed first-hand in Somalia how empty The Creep's turgid rhetoric was,
plotted the attack that would establish once and for all the hollowness of
America's justly vaunted military, absent the will and intelligence to make
proper use of it. No insult to that military is expressed or implied here;
the fault lies entirely with the political class, and with the people who
twice elected these Pecksniffian frauds to high office. Osama was
essentially correct in his assessment.

And he rewarded our timorous reluctance to face down our enemies with 9/11.

Bush, having surrounded himself with at least a few close advisors who don't
suffer from the Liberal Disease of unswerving reliance on foreign-aid
bribery, pointless UN resolutions, and cringing, supplicatory diplomacy to
achieve American foreign-policy and national-defense goals - with never
anything but a limp wrist reinforcing the velvet glove - momentarily did
and said the right things in immediate response, to the shock and horror of
a Muslim world grown accustomed to seeing the US retreat again and again in
the manner of an old, tired hound fleeing the bite of a horsefly. We
quickly removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, then turned our
attention to the festering sore that was Saddam's unpredictable and
threatening regime.

Saddam, in contrast to liberals' perfectly typical dark, whimpering
predictions of doom and defeat, went down like a ton of bricks, and in
almost incredibly short order was being dragged from his last sanctuary:
crouching in a cesspool, disheveled, humiliated, and with his lip bloodied.
He'd undeniably come a long, long way from his golden palaces and
unquestioned sovereignty, and the Muslim world took note of who it was that
dragged him there.

In the wake of that unexpected show of will and national self-respect,
Qadafy suddenly had a change of heart about his WMD programs and came clean
for the first time about them, leaving aghast a Western world that had
previously had no idea how far along he was in his pursuit of nuclear
weapons. Egypt promised free and open elections. Even Saudi Arabia made
some slight (albeit probably insincere) nods in the direction of
liberalization and the checking of the terrorist threat, for the first time
in memory. Real progress was undeniably being made.

And the only prodding required to achieve these goals was a fit and proper
embrace of the idea that, when viciously attacked by primeval savages, the
United States reserved the right to destroy any regime that countenanced
aiding and abetting them. The only truly surprising thing about it all
should have been that it had taken us so long to decipher Osama's "weak
horse, strong horse" message - to figure out that strength is father to
cooperation and respect, whereas weakness and vacillation breed only
contempt.

And then, the retreat began.

In the face of relentless baying from the mainstream press, spurred on by
same from a left wing that objectively despises everything America stands
for and yearns only for its defeat and diminishment, Bush returned with
forlorn alacrity the spine he had borrowed from his closest advisers and
began backtracking. The "Axis of Evil" became not an assemblage of
blackguard states to be dealt with sternly and with clarity of vision,
but "partners in peace" to be fecklessly negotiated with. Hamas became not
a terrorist organization dedicated with an ironclad fidelity to genocide
and the destruction of the only true Mideast democracy, but the legitimate
government of the all-but-formally-recognized State of Palestine. Hezbollah
lobbed Katyusha rockets into Israel, and Israel's response was eyed warily
for the remotest sign of "disproportionality." The promises garnered from
meetings with thuggish crypto-fascist religious dictatorships were to be
viewed not with a seemly suspicion but with child-like naivete and blind,
over-optimistic trust. And always, always, always, the plaintive note could
be faintly discerned underneath Bush's increasingly Clintonesque
bravado: "just don't hurt us anymore - please."

And now Syria has invaded Lebanon, and Iran careens along utterly unchecked
on its way to becoming a sort of terrorist superstate, and Democrats
continue squealing like Ned Beatty in Deliverance for an immediate and
unconditional surrender and generally dancing to the Islamist tune, shrilly
advocating for "fighting" terrorists in any place other than where we know
for sure they now are. And now some Republicans are joining them.

But who can blame them, really? From the opening moments of the Iraq
campaign, when "shock and awe" were abandoned for something a whole lot
more quotidian and supposedly "humane," Bush has allowed the slow, sure
Democratization of this war through his own ineptness and lack of vision,
and it's almost complete. The only thing lacking now from full realization
of the same old high-handed Democrat war-losing strategy is humiliating
news footage of American helicopters leaving embassy roofs, with desperate
locals falling from the skids like raindrops. But we'll see that soon
enough.

Anybody else noticing the pattern here? Because more of us had better do so,
and quick. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to etc.

--
Fred Stone
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"Cthulhu for President - why vote for the lesser evil?"