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Democrats' strategy is to ensure defeat in Iraq

Cal

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=playing_with_fire&ns=ThomasSowell&dt=04/03/2007&page=full&comments=true

Playing With Fire
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy."

Democrats can have any foreign policy they want -- if and when they are elected to the White House.

All that Pelosi's trip can accomplish is to advertise American disunity to a terrorist-sponsoring nation in the Middle East while we are in a war there. That in turn can only embolden the Syrians to exploit the lack of unified resolve in Washington by stepping up their efforts to destabilize Iraq and the Middle East in general.

Members of the opposition party, whichever party that might be at a given time, knew that their role was not to intervene abroad themselves to undermine this country's foreign policy, however much they might criticize it at home.

During the Second World War, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Wilkie, even acted as President Roosevelt's personal envoy to British Prime Minister Churchill.

He understood that we were all in this together, however we might disagree among ourselves about the best course to follow.

Today, Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats are stepping in to carry out their own foreign policy and even their own military policy on troop deployment -- all the while denying that they are intruding on the president's authority.

They are doing the same thing domestically by making a big media circus over the fact that the Bush administration fired eight U.S. attorneys. These attorneys are among the many officials who serve at the pleasure of the president -- which means that they can be fired at any time for any reason or for no reason.

That is why there was no big hullabaloo in the media when Bill Clinton fired all the U.S. attorneys across the country -- even though that got rid of the U.S. attorneys who were conducting an on-going investigation into corruption in Clinton's own administration as governor of Arkansas.

So much hate has been hyped against George W. Bush that anything that is done against him is unlikely to be questioned in most of the media.

But whatever passing damage is being done to George W. Bush is a relatively minor concern compared to the lasting damage that is being done to the presidency as an institution that will still be here when George W. Bush is gone.

Once it becomes accepted that it is all right to violate both the laws and the traditions of this nation, and to undermine the ability of the United States to speak to other nations of the world with one voice, we will have taken another fateful step downward into the degeneration of this society.

Such a drastic and irresponsible step should remove any lingering doubt that the Democrats' political strategy is to ensure that there is an American defeat in Iraq, in order to ensure their own political victory in 2008.

That these political games are being played while Iran keeps advancing relentlessly toward acquiring nuclear weapons is a fateful sign of the utter unreality of politicians preoccupied with scoring points and a media obsessed with celebrity bimbos, living and dead.

Once Iran has nuclear weapons, that will be an irreversible change that will mark a defining moment in the history of the United States and of Western civilization, which will forever after live at the mercy of hate-filled suicidal fanatics and sadists.

Yet among too many politicians in Washington, it is business as usual. Indeed, it is monkey business as usual, as Congressional Democrats revel in the power of their new and narrow election victory last year to drag people before committee hearings and posture for the television cameras.

It has been said that the world ends not with a bang but with a whimper. But who would have thought that it could end with political clowning in the shadow of a mushroom cloud?


Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy.
 

schnurrbart

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Why are the rightwingers so scared of "talking to our enemies"? There can be NO peace if you only talk to the choir and not your enemies!!!!!!!
 

katrina

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Why are the rightwingers so scared of "talking to our enemies"? There can be NO peace if you only talk to the choir and not your enemies!!!!!!!

I don't think the rightwingers are scared...... They know what is at stake... YOu have to remember that we are fighting a jihad that it's total goal is to kill all of us that arn't muslem... It's not a country like other wars were, Its terrorist in these countries who harbor them....
 

Soapweed

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schnurrbart said:
Why are the rightwingers so scared of "talking to our enemies"? There can be NO peace if you only talk to the choir and not your enemies!!!!!!!

Does it do any good to "talk" to a grizzly bear? :???:

And if you do, speak loudly and carry a big gun. :shock:
 

kolanuraven

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Soapweed said:
schnurrbart said:
Why are the rightwingers so scared of "talking to our enemies"? There can be NO peace if you only talk to the choir and not your enemies!!!!!!!

Does it do any good to "talk" to a grizzly bear? :???:

And if you do, speak loudly and carry a big gun. :shock:


No, but you have to be able to KNOW that is a grizzly bear and not duck!!! You have to know what you're up against...not just guess .

Some of you LOVE the ' old sayings'...what about keep your friends close BUT your enemies CLOSER???????
 

Txwalt

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I believe that Stalin had a signed peace agreement with Hitler. The prime minister of Britain did also, his name escapes me, was't Churchhill. He said "peace in our time". Look at history. When did anyone talking to their enemies work? Ummm let me think... Korea, wait thats not a good one. Ummm tried it at the Alamo but didn't work. Lets see. Oh oh all the peace agreements the Israelis have ever made. Wait, nope, not that one either. Hummmmm. Ahhhhhhh. Look. Please listen carefully. Countries are like an elementary school playground. When the bully goes over and pushes a kid down he doesn't care what the kid has to say. Whatever the kid says is just weakness. It means he's not ready to deal with the situation. If the kid gets up and attacks. That means "don't push me again". Next time the bully will think twice. Or the bully got a whoopin and won't come back. Talking to your enemies may work in Desperate houswives or Oprah. This is not some stupid show.

Walt
 

Texan

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kolanuraven said:
Some of you LOVE the ' old sayings'...what about keep your friends close BUT your enemies CLOSER???????
Yeah, well what about, kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out? I like that saying better.
 

aplusmnt

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Richard Doolittle said:
"We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy."

Boy, statements like that are sure inspirational------ to terrorists and insurgents!!!

That is why the Dem's are the party of choice for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he knows they support him and his objective.
 

Richard Doolittle

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aplusmnt "That is why the Dem's are the party of choice for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he knows they support him and his objective."

I don't know if I'd go that far, but the terrorists find it's pretty easy to use them to create more division on the homefront.
 

aplusmnt

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Richard Doolittle said:
aplusmnt "That is why the Dem's are the party of choice for Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he knows they support him and his objective."

I don't know if I'd go that far, but the terrorists find it's pretty easy to use them to create more division on the homefront.

Probably worded it wrong, their actions support him not saying they actually support him.
 

katrina

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The thing is. We are in this terrorist fight for along time...... Our kids, kids will be fighting this monster.... Pulling out of Iraq will not help us.... Terrorist want us dead..........The muslim way or your head comes off....
 

Richard Doolittle

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ABSOLUTELY KATRINA!! If we pull out prematurely, we'll just have to do it again. And it darn sure ain't going to be an easier fight the next time. It's just beyond me how people can actually think we can just bring the troops home and establish a dialogue with Muslim extremists and live in peace.
 
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