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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I Was Not Expecting Any Wisdom from Senator Leahy

So I wasn’t disappointed. From a soundbite played on Laura Ingraham’s radio program, someone was asking Senator Leahy if he was giving President Bush’s new plan a chance.

He said “No”, because (paraphrasing) the President’s other plans were failures, so there was no reason to expect this one not to be a failure also. Yeah, that’s the American spirit. That is the spirit that uplifted us and gave us purpose after Pearl Harbor and after 9/11.

The cumulative effect of these types of statements is why things are not going well in parts of Iraq. That is why innocent Iraqis are dying daily and why more Americans are getting killed, because the traitorous Left in this country is giving the “insurgents” aid and comfort. In watching our culture, the Islamists know us better than some of our own people do. They know, from past experiences that we will tire. For a while after 9/11, after the invasion of Afghanistan and the early successes in Iraq, they may have been taken aback. But as the MSM got “cranked up” and the Dems came to realize that they would rather lose a war than an election, no doubt the Islamists began smiling, saying to themselves, “there they go again, those soft Americans will give up”.

While accusing Conservatives of living in fantasy world of absolutes, Dems and other Leftists live in such a place (beyond the looking glass?). There is no short-term evidence of absolute failure of any policy, just because things don’t work well, they can be turned around if we don’t give up. The apparent failure of a policy may be because of a failure to execute a good idea in a timely manner.

When the Battle of the Bulge was raging in late 1944 and early 1945, we couldn’t know that VE Day was less than six months away. During that 38-day battle, where American battle deaths were approximately 19,000, it probably didn’t seem like Germany’s “last gasp”.

We cannot accurately gauge whether a strategy was a complete success or failure until the passage of time, perhaps at least five years, if not more.

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