Liberal Americans: Brainwashed To An Expectation of Failure?

It is becoming increasingly apparent that Americans are becoming wimps. Certainly Democrats have been committed to losing since the Viet Nam War. They abandoned the South Viet Namese Army following the withdrawal of American troops after pledging to provide whatever support was necessary to prevent the fall of the South. Democrats were the first to call for the withdrawal of US Troops in 1984 from Lebanon following the terrorist attack which killed 279 Marines. President Clinton lacked the courage to make a stand in Somalia following the "Blackhawk Down" incident. Democrats have been pressing for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, almost from the initiation of hostilities.

That Democrats lack the nerve to press the cause in Iraq comes as no surprise to any who have paid attention to events of the past 60 years. What is disturbing is the apparent lack of will within the Republican ranks. Even more disturbing is the inability of Americans to look beyond the next election and comprehend the implications of failure in Iraq.

America paid a tragic price in 2001 for the failures of foreign policy and intelligence in not seeing the dangers in a post Soviet Afghanistan and taking action prior to the formation of the Taliban government. Now we see portents of a repetition of that mistake about to occur in Iraq.

Major Change Expected In Strategy for Iraq War

By Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks Washington
Post Staff WritersFriday, October 20, 2006; Page A01

The growing doubts among GOP lawmakers about the administration's Iraq strategy, coupled with the prospect of Democratic wins in next month's midterm elections, will soon force the Bush administration to abandon its open-ended commitment to the war, according to lawmakers in both parties, foreign policy experts and others involved in policymaking.

Senior figures in both parties are coming to the conclusion that the Bush administration will be unable to achieve its goal of a stable, democratic Iraq within a politically feasible time frame. Agitation is growing in Congress for alternatives to the administration's strategy of keeping Iraq in one piece and getting its security forces up and running while 140,000 U.S. troops try to keep a lid on rapidly spreading sectarian violence.

On the campaign trail, Democratic candidates are hammering Republican candidates for backing a failed Iraq policy, and GOP defense of the war is growing muted. A new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released this week showed that voters are more confident in Democrats' ability to handle the Iraq war than the Republicans' -- a reversal from the last election.

Few officials in either party are talking about an immediate pullout of U.S. combat troops. But interest appears to be growing in several broad ideas. One would be some kind of effort to divide the country along regional lines. Another, favored by many Democrats, is a gradual withdrawal of troops over a set period of time. A third would be a dramatic scaling-back of U.S. ambitions in Iraq, giving up on democracy and focusing only on stability.

It must be noted that the Republicans to whom Messrs. Abramowitz and Ricks are referring come primarily from the ranks of those Conservative Republicans have labeled RINO's. Individuals whose allegiance to the accepted Republican doctrine is suspect, and whose allegiance to the republican party is primarily do to historical party affiliation only.

Republican voters are about to make a fatal and possibly unrecoverable mistake if they decide that it would be a good idea to sit this next election out and let the Democrats have their way in Congress. There can be little doubt what a Democrat Congress would do, they've done it before in 1974. Democrats of the latter half of the 20th Century and the first of this century have a cut and run mentality, and they will push for us to be out of Iraq as quickly as possible, even going as far as to cut off funding for our troops should the President not acquiesce to their desires. They did it to the South Vietnamese Army in 1974 and they did it to the Contra's during the Reagan administration.

The Liberals in the Paleo-media like Abramowitz and Ricks write these articles because they want us to lose the war in Iraq. They want the American people to believe that the Republicans are getting weak and losing their faith in our ability to win in Iraq. Sorry I don't buy it, when I hear some of the individuals in whom I have faith, like Jim Sessions, Jon Kyl, or our own Senator Cornyn, then I will worry about it. Quoting Olympia Snowe to me is about as persuasive as quoting FatDrunkStupid...err...Ted "the Chaufeur" Kennedy. There is only a minor philosophical (and a couple of hundred pounds of rock hard liver) difference between them.

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