Winning In Iraq

What is the easiest way to lose a war? Simple. Quit. That seems to be the strategy of the leadership of today’s Democratic Party when is comes to the fighting in Iraq. Long gone are the days of Democrat national security hawks such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. All rational people realize that abandoning Iraq now would insure nation-wide chaos. Whatever government would emerge from that chaos would undoubtedly be hostile to America. Leaving Iraq is a losing strategy. Some Democrats, to their credit, want the U.S. to win the war and want democracy in Iraq to succeed. Others do not. If you think that this is an overstatement consider the following quotes from the current leadership of the Democratic Party in recent weeks and decide for yourself.

The idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong. - Howard
Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee

My plan calls for immediate redeployment of US troops – John Murtha Democratic Congressman
from Pennsylvania

The withdrawal [of American troops in Iraq] ought to start now, right after the elections, December
15th - Barbara Boxer, Democratic Senator from California

These people are not stupid. They know that leaving Iraq would be devastating and it is this knowledge that makes their position so troubling.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, America has become the world’s last remaining military superpower. On the field of battle, in the long run, we simply cannot be defeated. Our weapons are too advanced, our resources too vast, our military leaders too smart, and our soldiers too effective to be defeated in a way that wars are conventionally fought. However, America is not an empire. We do not conquer other countries and impose our will. When we defeat an enemy we attempt to create and free and open society responsible to its people. Then we leave (think Germany and Japan after World War II or South Korea after the Korean War). Because of our desire to see freedom and democracy spread to all corners of the world and our open society that allows all kinds of dissent, we are vulnerable to losing a war politically. America was defeated in Vietnam, not because of the superiority of our Communist enemies, but because we lost the propaganda war at home. We refused to use enough troops, we didn’t support our South Vietnamese allies militarily or politically, and we didn’t use the full force of our military because of domestic pressure. The 1960s saw the rise of the anti-war left, its success in turning the American public against the war and that movement’s attachment to Democratic Party we know today. Many in the Democratic Party are trying to turn the fight in Iraq into a repeat of Vietnam. They know that the American military, if given time and support, will eliminate all remnants of the terrorist operations in Iraq and, therefore, they need to turn the American people against the war to force a premature pullout.

On December 15th, Iraqis went to the polls for the third time in 12 months to freely elect their politicians. If the Democratic Party would have had its way on Iraq, the world would still be talking about Saddam Hussein at the United Nations and he would still be oppressing his own people. We can't lose the war over there. The American military is just too dominating and effective. The only place we can lose in Iraq is in Washington, D.C.

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