Posted by
JDComments on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:34:02 AM
This
article by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post rehashing the Liberal nonsense justifying an immediate withdrawal from Iraq really doesn't deserve much effort in terms of rebuttal, but I found two things interesting and annoying at the same time. First, most of his justification comes down to Kissinger's recent statement about the war not being winnable from a military aspect, but that political and diplomatic negotiations are necessary. Coming from a lifelong diplomat, I cannot really see why this is either surprising or considered news. It is also interesting that Robinson conveniently left out Kissinger's statement that an immediate withdrawal would be disastrous for the region, but Liberals are never that stringent about facts, so I guess we can forgive him. However, I wonder why anyone is shocked to learn that political negotiations are necessary to end a war unless the victorious army wants to impose a colonial administration. The famous saying that war is politics by other means is perfectly accurate in correlating the two, and therefore both are necessary to achieve victory. However, either one is insufficient, and withdrawing from Iraq before establishing a stable government removes the most powerful leverage we have in seeking to create a republican democracy there. When negotiating and bargaining you should always seek a position of strength, something Liberals just don't seem to understand in the international realm. Our army is a power which focuses the attention of the various factions, and the need for political negotiations makes its presence that much more important.
The other comment that really annoyed me was Robinson's referral to Vietnam, a sore point I will never get over. We lost in Vietnam because of journalists like him who sapped our collective will, and convinced us we were losing when the opposite was true [the Tet offensive should go down in history as the most disastrous US victory in history because of the MSM's spin on it. The Viet Cong lost just about every engagement they fought in it, yet we were the ones demoralized.]. Vietnam was the first politically correct war ever waged, where we restrained ourselves from using our collective might and as a result prolonged a campaign we should have won easily and that we finally had to forsake, and that is truly a shame we have to live with, but we must never allow that to happen again.It resulted in a disaster for the people of SouthEast Asia who died by the millions once the dominos fell [something Liberals seem to always gloss over] and it left the US in a depressed state that it took years to overcome. We cannot afford that now against an Islamofascist enemy which is seeking to destroy us with the help of the Liberal MSM.